Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11 · curl/curl · Discussion #12026
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We are cutting the release cycle short and will release curl 8.4.0 on October 11, including fixes for a severity HIGH CVE and one severity LOW. The one rated HIGH is probably the worst curl securit...

Posted on twitter by Curl author Daniel Stenberg - https://nitter.cz/bagder/status/1709103920914526525

We are cutting the release cycle short and will release curl 8.4.0 on October 11, including a fix for a severity HIGH CVE. Buckle up.

… But this time actually the worst security problem found in curl in a long time

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-38545

Why don’t they just rewrite it in rust? It would be much safer right?

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You can already use experimental hyper backend (written in rust) for http stuff in curl https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/how-using-hyper-in-curl-can-help-make-the-internet-safer/ I wonder if the vulnerability touches this use case as well

Perfect article for my question. Appreciated.

I think that’s been asked before. That’d be a massive undertaking, and they also support architectures that I don’t think Rust does (yet).

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