[Debian] CVE: CVE-2023-23916: curl: An allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability

[Yue Tao]

CVE-2023-23916: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23916

An allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 based on the "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a server response can be compressed multiple times and potentially with differentalgorithms. The number of acceptable "links" in this "decompression chain" wascapped, but the cap was implemented on a per-header basis allowing a maliciousserver to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps simply byusing many headers. The use of such a decompression chain could result in a "malloc bomb", making curl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying to and returning out of memory errors.

Score:
cve_id status cvss3Score av ac pr ui ai
CVE-2023-23916 fixed 7.5 N L N N H

References:
['curl_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u3_amd64.deb===>curl_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7_amd64.deb', 'libcurl3-gnutls_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u3_amd64.deb===>libcurl3-gnutls_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7_amd64.deb', 'libcurl4_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u3_amd64.deb===>libcurl4_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7_amd64.deb', 'libcurl4-gnutls-dev_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u3_amd64.deb===>libcurl4-gnutls-dev_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7_amd64.deb', 'libcurl4-openssl-dev_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u3_amd64.deb===>libcurl4-openssl-dev_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7_amd64.deb']

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/tools/+/877072

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/tools/+/877072
Committed: https://opendev.org/starlingx/tools/commit/356407865c350835a9bbd46d7b55aa1dc0f373e8
Submitter: "Zuul (22348)"
Branch: master

commit 356407865c350835a9bbd46d7b55aa1dc0f373e8
Author: Li Zhou <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Mar 9 10:02:45 2023 +0800

    Debian: curl : fix CVE-2023-23916

    Upgrade packages to below version to fix CVE-2023-23916:
    curl_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7_amd64.deb
    libcurl3-gnutls_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7_amd64.deb
    libcurl4_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7_amd64.deb
    libcurl4-gnutls-dev_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7_amd64.deb
    libcurl4-openssl-dev_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7_amd64.deb

    Refer to:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-23916

    Test Plan:
    Pass: downloader
    Pass: build-pkgs --clean --all
    Pass: build-image
    Pass: boot

    Closes-bug: #2009332

    Signed-off-by: Li Zhou <email address hidden>
    Change-Id: I9a802997067ec04a27267c79e4d8aefacefd8c83