Bug 2099300 (CVE-2022-32206)

Summary: CVE-2022-32206 curl: HTTP compression denial of service
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: andrew.slice, bodavis, csutherl, dbhole, dffrench, erik-fedora, gzaronik, hhorak, jclere, jorton, jwon, kanderso, kdudka, luhliari, lvaleeva, lzaoral, mike, msekleta, mturk, ngough, omajid, paul, peholase, pjindal, plodge, rgodfrey, rwagner, saroy, security-response-team, svashisht, szappis
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: curl 7.84.0 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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A vulnerability was found in curl. This issue occurs because the number of acceptable "links" in the "decompression chain" was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps. This flaw leads to a denial of service, either by mistake or by a malicious actor.
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Last Closed: 2022-12-10 17:32:58 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 2099446, 2099447, 2099448, 2099449, 2099450, 2101648, 2101649, 2159940, 2187706    
Bug Blocks: 2099297    

Description Marian Rehak 2022-06-20 14:02:37 UTC
The number of acceptable "links" in the "decompression chain" was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps.

Comment 3 Sandipan Roy 2022-06-28 03:28:44 UTC
Created curl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2101648]


Created mingw-curl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2101649]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2022-08-24 15:07:53 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2022:6157 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6157

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2022-08-24 17:31:19 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:6159 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6159

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2022-12-08 13:07:08 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7
  JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2022:8840 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8840

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2022-12-08 13:22:04 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Core Services

Via RHSA-2022:8841 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8841

Comment 11 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-12-10 17:32:56 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-32206

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2023-06-06 08:30:46 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service

Via RHSA-2023:3460 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3460