CVE-2023-28319

A use after free vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 in the way libcurl offers a feature to verify an SSH servers public key using a SHA 256 hash. When this check fails, libcurl would free the memory for the fingerprint before it returns an error message containing the (now freed) hash. This flaw risks inserting sensitive heap-based data into the error message that might be shown to users or otherwise get leaked and revealed.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Curl	Haxx	*	8.1.0 (excluding)
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8	RedHat	jbcs-httpd24-curl-0:8.2.1-1.el8jbcs	*
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7	RedHat	jbcs-httpd24-curl-0:8.2.1-1.el7jbcs	*
Text-Only JBCS	RedHat	jbcs-httpd24-curl	*
Curl	Ubuntu	trusty	*
Curl	Ubuntu	upstream	*
Curl	Ubuntu	xenial	*

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28319
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html

Use After Free

Weakness

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References