This flaw makes curl overflow a heap based buffer in the SOCKS5 proxy handshake. When curl is asked to pass along the host name to the SOCKS5 proxy to allow that to resolve the address instead of it getting done by curl itself, the maximum length that host name can be is 255 bytes. If the host name is detected to be longer, curl switches to local name resolving and instead passes on the resolved address only. Due to this bug, the local variable that means "let the host resolve the name" could get the wrong value during a slow SOCKS5 handshake, and contrary to the intention, copy the too long host name to the target buffer instead of copying just the resolved address there. The target buffer being a heap based buffer, and the host name coming from the URL that curl has been told to operate with.
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Thu, 17 Oct 2024 22:15:00 +0000

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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'No', 'Exploitation': 'PoC', 'Technical Impact': 'Total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published: 2023-10-18T03:52:00.816Z

Updated: 2024-10-17T21:16:30.994Z

Reserved: 2023-07-20T01:00:12.444Z

Link: CVE-2023-38545

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T17:46:56.235Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-18T04:15:11.077

Modified: 2024-10-17T22:35:00.730

Link: CVE-2023-38545

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2023-10-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-38545 - Bugzilla