Re:Increased CVE Activity in Curl?
by hsbauauvhabzb on Monday August 22, 2022 @07:22AM
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Integrity and availability are security too. I would call arbitrary file delete a security issue even if it could only be triggered by a non malicious actor.
It's a C library that includes support for all kind of arcane and useless protocols and operates on a string-based programming model with a lot of magic. It is a prime fucking target for all kinds of CVEs.
But some of these just look like regular bugs. For example, https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2022-27778.html
Which seems like at worst it deletes a previous version of a file fetched with curl, and leaves a partial file, rather than deleting the partial file. I understand there's perhaps a very unlikely scenario in which this could lead to a system being compromised, but it depends on too many other factors that are also increasingly unlikely, it seems on the order of likelihood of reversing SHA-256