CVE-2022-32206

curl < 7.84.0 supports "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a serverresponse can be compressed multiple times and potentially with different algorithms. The number of acceptable "links" in this "decompression chain" was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps.The use of such a decompression chain could result in a "malloc bomb", makingcurl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying toand returning out of memory errors.

Score
CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium
Status
Modified - support@hackerone.com
Published
2022-07-07
Last modified
2026-10-14
Weaknesses
CWE-770

Affected products

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