▲ 156 ▼ 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 2 years ago by taaz@biglemmowski.win to c/linux@lemmy.ml 27 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/224873 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
[+] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com -9 points 2 years ago (3 children) Didn't Daniel Stenberg just go on a bitchfit a month ago about how CVE is bad and useless and wasting his time? permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Backslash@feddit.de 45 points 2 years ago Reading the blog post, it's a lot more nuanced than that: someone reported a CVE, which was related to a possible int overflow in client code handling the timeout between requests. NVD chose to grade this as a 9.8/10 on their severity scale (for context, CVE-2014-0160, also known as Heartbleed, got a 7.5/10), which is ludicrous for a bug which could at most change the retry timeout of your request from your intended years to a few seconds. Daniel says that this is not a security vulnerability at all and has no business being listed on the CVE database, whereas NVD argues that it's a bug, it's been reported to them and because overflows are undefined behavior, anything can happen and so it's a security vulnerability. In the end, they agreed to at least adjust the severity down to a 3.3, but I can understand that Daniel is still somewhat miffed about it. Personally I also agree that it's not really a security issue and that even a 3.3 is too high in terms of severity. permalink fedilink source parent [+] ugo@feddit.it 31 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] feral_hedgehog@pawb.social 8 points 2 years ago Are we reading the same article? You assume they've read the article 😬 permalink fedilink source parent [–] SteveTech@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago I'm not sure, but I think they're able to review their own CVEs now, or at least they were trying to be able to after 2020-19909. Because companies like Microsoft, Intel, and stuff already do. (I believe the term is CNA) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Backslash@feddit.de 45 points 2 years ago Reading the blog post, it's a lot more nuanced than that: someone reported a CVE, which was related to a possible int overflow in client code handling the timeout between requests. NVD chose to grade this as a 9.8/10 on their severity scale (for context, CVE-2014-0160, also known as Heartbleed, got a 7.5/10), which is ludicrous for a bug which could at most change the retry timeout of your request from your intended years to a few seconds. Daniel says that this is not a security vulnerability at all and has no business being listed on the CVE database, whereas NVD argues that it's a bug, it's been reported to them and because overflows are undefined behavior, anything can happen and so it's a security vulnerability. In the end, they agreed to at least adjust the severity down to a 3.3, but I can understand that Daniel is still somewhat miffed about it. Personally I also agree that it's not really a security issue and that even a 3.3 is too high in terms of severity. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] ugo@feddit.it 31 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] feral_hedgehog@pawb.social 8 points 2 years ago Are we reading the same article? You assume they've read the article 😬 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] feral_hedgehog@pawb.social 8 points 2 years ago Are we reading the same article? You assume they've read the article 😬 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago I'm not sure, but I think they're able to review their own CVEs now, or at least they were trying to be able to after 2020-19909. Because companies like Microsoft, Intel, and stuff already do. (I believe the term is CNA) permalink fedilink source parent