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Medium USN-6944-1 1 CVE

curl vulnerability

Published Aug 5, 2024 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Dov Murik discovered that curl incorrectly handled parsing ASN.1
Generalized Time fields. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause
curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain
sensitive memory contents.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS curl 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.23
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS curl 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.17
Ubuntu · 24.04 LTS 24.04:LTS curl 8.5.0-2ubuntu10.2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.3
    CVE-2024-7264 EPSS 20%

    ASN.1 date parser overread

    libcurl's ASN1 parser code has the `GTime2str()` function, used for parsing an ASN.1 Generalized Time field. If given an syntactically incorrect field, the parser might end up using -1 for the length of the *time fraction*, leading to a `strlen()` getting per…

    curl curl curl curl Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-7264