freeing stack buffer in utf8asn1str

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    "title": "freeing stack buffer in utf8asn1str",
    "summary": "libcurl's ASN1 parser has this `utf8asn1str()` function used for parsing an ASN.1 UTF-8 string. It can detect an invalid field and return error. Unfortunately, when doing so it also invokes `free()` on a 4 byte local stack buffer. Most modern malloc implementations detect this error and immediately abort. Some however accept the input pointer and add that memory to its list of available chunks. This leads to the overwriting of nearby stack memory. The content of the overwrite is decided by the `free()` implementation; likely to be memory pointers and a set of flags. The most likely outcome of exploiting this flaw is a crash, although it cannot be ruled out that more serious results can be had in special circumstances.",
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