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Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11 (CVE-2023-38545) · curl/curl · Discussion #12026 (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by taaz@biglemmowski.win to c/programming@programming.dev
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Posted on twitter by Curl author Daniel Stenberg - https://nitter.cz/bagder/status/1709103920914526525

We are cutting the release cycle short and will release curl 8.4.0 on October 11, including a fix for a severity HIGH CVE. Buckle up.

... But this time actually the worst security problem found in curl in a long time

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-38545

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[–] Black616Angel@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who also guesses buffer overflow or use-after-free?

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Buffer overflows are like Lupus in House M.D.

[–] __init__@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

It’s not overflow. It’s never overflow.

[–] aoidenpa@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why don't they just rewrite it in rust? It would be much safer right?

[–] unquietwiki@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

I think that's been asked before. That'd be a massive undertaking, and they also support architectures that I don't think Rust does (yet).

[–] fil@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can already use experimental hyper backend (written in rust) for http stuff in curl https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/how-using-hyper-in-curl-can-help-make-the-internet-safer/ I wonder if the vulnerability touches this use case as well

[–] aoidenpa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Perfect article for my question. Appreciated.

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I want to thank the curl developers for taking security issues seriously to keep me safe.

Now I'm going to go pipe another curl script output directly into a sudo bash command. /s

We need a version of /s for "I'm not actually doing this right now... but we know I still will..."