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siglongjmp race condition

Type: advisorySources: OSV

libcurl provides several different backends for resolving hostnames, selected at build time. If it is built to use the synchronous resolver, it allows name resolves to time-out slow operations using `alarm()` and `siglongjmp()`. When doing this, libcurl used a global buffer that was not mutex protected and a multi-threaded application might therefore crash or otherwise misbehave.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2023-28320
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 16:54 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

siglongjmp race condition

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 May 2023, 08:00 UTC

libcurl provides several different backends for resolving hostnames, selected at build time. If it is built to use the synchronous resolver, it allows name resolves to time-out slow operations using `alarm()` and `siglongjmp()`. When doing this, libcurl used a global buffer that was not mutex protected and a multi-threaded application might therefore crash or otherwise misbehave.

osv:CURL-CVE-2023-28320
Complete source record
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