| Name | CVE-2020-8231 |
| Description | Due to use of a dangling pointer, libcurl 7.29.0 through 7.71.1 can use the wrong connection when sending data. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2382-1, DSA-4881-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 968831 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| curl (PTS) | buster | 7.64.0-4+deb10u2 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 7.64.0-4+deb10u9 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u11 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 7.88.1-10+deb12u5 | fixed |
| trixie | 8.5.0-2 | fixed |
| sid | 8.7.1-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2020-8231.html
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/5824
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/3c9e021f86872baae412a427e807fbfa2f3e8