How I Made a Heap Overflow in Curl

Re:How I Made a Heap Overflow in Curl by Cloudef on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @06:46AM (#37842896)

Quite a bit of hype and drama for something that requires very specific condition to be exploited.

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Re:How I Made a Heap Overflow in Curl by palata on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @07:54AM (#37843342)

... and that is installed on billions on devices. I can imagine you quickly get very specific conditions here and there when something is deployed at that scale.

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Re:How I Made a Heap Overflow in Curl by faster_harder on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @08:02AM (#37843400)

Curl has had their share of issues with CVEs, I assume they want to show that they are taking actual security issues very seriously. See e.g. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-eve...

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