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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-5365-1 curl -- security update

Date Reported:

27 Feb 2023

Affected Packages:

curl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2023-23916.

More information:

Patrick Monnerat discovered that Curl's support for chained HTTP compression algorithms was susceptible to denial of service.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7. This update also fixes a regression in the previously released fix for CVE-2022-27774.

We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.

For the detailed security status of curl please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/curl