CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.9. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2023-28320
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.9
EPSS
2.66%
Original NVD Description
A denial of service vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 in the way libcurl provides several different backends for resolving host names, selected at build time. If it is built to use the synchronous resolver, it allows name resolves to time-out slow operations using `alarm()` and `siglongjmp()`. When doing this, libcurl used a global buffer that was not mutex protected and a multi-threaded application might therefore crash or otherwise misbehave.
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