Multiple CVEs Affect curl Due to Chained HTTP Compression Vulnerabilities

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.

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.