Description
libcurl 7.49.0 to and including 7.57.0 contains an out bounds read in code handling HTTP/2 trailers. It was reported (https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2231) that reading an HTTP/2 trailer could mess up future trailers since the stored size was one byte less than required. The problem is that the code that creates HTTP/1-like headers from the HTTP/2 trailer data once appended a string like `:` to the target buffer, while this was recently changed to `: ` (a space was added after the colon) but the following math wasn't updated correspondingly. When accessed, the data is read out of bounds and causes either a crash or that the (too large) data gets passed to client write. This could lead to a denial-of-service situation or an information disclosure if someone has a service that echoes back or uses the trailers for something.
Metrics
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
No affected versions have been published.
Timeline
- Published
- Jan 24, 2018
- Last modified
- Jun 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified