{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2023-09-13T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "curl: out of heap memory issue due to missing limit on header quantity",
    "id" : "2239135",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239135"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-770",
  "details" : [ "When curl retrieves an HTTP response, it stores the incoming headers so that\nthey can be accessed later via the libcurl headers API.\nHowever, curl did not have a limit in how many or how large headers it would\naccept in a response, allowing a malicious server to stream an endless series\nof headers and eventually cause curl to run out of heap memory.", "A flaw was found in the Curl package. Curl allows a malicious server to stream an endless series of headers to a client due to missing limit on header quantity, eventually causing curl to run out of heap memory, which may lead to a crash." ],
  "statement" : "This issue does not affect the Curl package as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, 8, and 9.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Daniel Stenberg (patched) and selmelc on hackerone (reported) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8",
    "release_date" : "2023-12-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:7625",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_core_services:1::el8",
    "package" : "jbcs-httpd24-curl-0:8.4.0-2.el8jbcs"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2023-12-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:7625",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_core_services:1::el7",
    "package" : "jbcs-httpd24-curl-0:8.4.0-2.el7jbcs"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Text-Only JBCS",
    "release_date" : "2023-12-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:7626",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_core_services:1",
    "package" : "jbcs-httpd24-curl"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "curl",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "curl",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "curl",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "curl",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38039\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38039\nhttps://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-38039.html" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-38039",
  "csaw" : false
}