CVE-2022-32206: Input Validation

Published Jun 20, 2022
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Updated

A vulnerability was found in curl. This issue occurs because the number of acceptable "links" in the "decompression chain" was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps. This flaw leads to a denial of service, either by mistake or by a malicious actor.

Other sources

Accelerate Framework. A memory consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

— Apple

APFS. An access issue was addressed with improved access restrictions.

— Apple

Apple Neural Engine. The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

— Apple

AppleAVD. A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.

— Apple

AppleAVD. This issue was addressed with improved checks.

— Apple

Credit

CVE-2022-32205, CVE-2022-32206, CVE-2022-32207, CVE-2022-32208, Arsenii Kostromin (0x3c3e), Kshitij Kumar(Crowdstrike), Jai Musunuri(Crowdstrike), Sergii Kryvoblotskyi(MacPaw Inc), Linus Henze(Pinauten GmbH), Tommy Muir@@Muirey03, Jiří Vinopal@@vinopaljiri(Check Point Research), Sonali Luthar(the University of Virginia), Michael Liao(the University of Illinois at Urbana), Rohan Pahwa(Rutgers University), (University of Florida), Bao Nguyen(University of Florida), Bistrit Dahal, Csaba Fitzl@@theevilbit(Offensive Security), Wojciech Reguła(SecuRing), Ron Masas (breakpoint.sh)(BreakPoint Technologies LTD), Pan ZhenPeng@@Peterpan0927, Asahi Lina@@LinaAsahi, Yutao Wang@@Jack, Yu Zhou@@yuzhou6666, Evgeny Legerov(Intevydis), Joshua Jones, Yiğit Can YILMAZ@@yilmazcanyigit, Mickey Jin@@patch1t, CVE-2022-1622, Antonio Zekic@@antoniozekic, Peter Pan ZhenPeng(STAR Labs), Tingting Yin(Tsinghua University), Zweig(Kunlun Lab), Ian Beer(Google Project Zero), Tim Michaud@@TimGMichaud(Moveworks), Xinru Chi(Pangu Lab), John Aakerblom@@jaakerblom, Wojciech Reguła@@_r3ggi(SecuRing), Ron Masas(breakpointhq), an anonymous researcher, Xingwei Lin@@xwlin_roy(Ant Security Light), Yinyi Wu(Ant Security Light), CVE-2021-39537, CVE-2022-29458, Gustav Hansen(WithSecure), Ubeydullah Sümer, Mickey Jin@@patch1t(Trend Micro), Ezekiel Elin, Ashwani Rajput(Nagarro Software Pvt), Srijan Shivam Mishra(The Hack Report), Jugal Goradia(Aastha Technologies), Evan Ricafort (evanricafort.com)(Invalid Web Security), Shesha Sai C (linkedin.com/in/shesha-sai-c-18585b125)(Pune), (Pune), Amod Raghunath Patwardhan(Pune), India, CVE-2022-28739, Rohit Chatterjee(University of Illinois Urbana), Justin Bui@@slyd0g(Snowflake), Cristian Dinca(Tudor Vianu National High School of Computer Science of), Om kothawade(Zaprico Digital), Andrew Goldberg(The McCombs School of Business), The University(Texas at Austin), Felix Poulin-Belanger, CVE-2021-36690, Adam Chester(TrustedSec), Thijs Alkemade@@xnyhps(Computest Sector 7), CVE-2022-0261, CVE-2022-0318, CVE-2022-0319, CVE-2022-0351, CVE-2022-0359, CVE-2022-0361, CVE-2022-0368, CVE-2022-0392, CVE-2022-0554, CVE-2022-0572, CVE-2022-0629, CVE-2022-0685, CVE-2022-0696, CVE-2022-0714, CVE-2022-0729, CVE-2022-0943, CVE-2022-1381, CVE-2022-1420, CVE-2022-1725, CVE-2022-1616, CVE-2022-1619, CVE-2022-1620, CVE-2022-1621, CVE-2022-1629, CVE-2022-1674, CVE-2022-1733, CVE-2022-1735, CVE-2022-1769, CVE-2022-1927, CVE-2022-1942, CVE-2022-1968, CVE-2022-1851, CVE-2022-1897, CVE-2022-1898, CVE-2022-1720, CVE-2022-2000, CVE-2022-2042, CVE-2022-2124, CVE-2022-2125, CVE-2022-2126, Francisco Alonso@@revskills, P1umer@@p1umer, afang@@afang5472, xmzyshypnc@@xmzyshypnc1, Jeonghoon Shin at Theori@@singi21a(Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative), Jihwan Kim@@gPayl0ad, Dohyun Lee@@l33d0hyun, Dohyun Lee@@l33d0hyun(SSD Labs), Abdulrahman Alqabandi(Microsoft Browser Vulnerability Research), Ryan Shin(IAAI SecLab at Korea University), Dohyun Lee@@l33d0hyun(DNSLab at Korea University), Wonyoung Jung@@nonetype_pwn(KAIST Hacking Lab), Yonghwi Jin at Theori@@jinmo123(Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative), 楼梦想改造家@@18(DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab), @@jq0904(DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab), Jeff Johnson, Wang Yu(Cyberserval), Evgeny Legerov, Yinyi Wu(Google Project Zero), ABC Research s.r.o(Google Project Zero), Natalie Silvanovich(Google Project Zero), Tommaso Bianco@@cutesmilee__, Antonio Zekic@@antoniozekic(Google Project Zero), Koh M. Nakagawa(FFRI Security Inc), Anonymous(Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative), ABC Research s.r.o., Jonathan Bar Or(Microsoft), Jonathan Zhang(Open Computing Facility), David Hoyt(Hoyt LLC), Guilherme Rambo(Best Buddy Apps), Halle Winkler@@hallewinkler(Politepix), Thijs Alkemade(Computest Sector 7), Arsenii Kostromin, Mohamed Ghannam@@_simo36, ryuzaki

Affected Software

65 affected componentsFixes available
redhat/jbcs-httpd24-curl<0:7.86.0-2.el8
0:7.86.0-2.el8
redhat/jbcs-httpd24-curl<0:7.86.0-2.el7
0:7.86.0-2.el7
redhat/curl<0:7.61.1-22.el8_6.4
0:7.61.1-22.el8_6.4
redhat/curl<0:7.61.1-18.el8_4.3
0:7.61.1-18.el8_4.3
redhat/curl<0:7.76.1-14.el9_0.5
0:7.76.1-14.el9_0.5
debian/curl<=7.64.0-4+deb10u2
7.64.0-4+deb10u77.74.0-1.3+deb11u97.74.0-1.3+deb11u107.88.1-10+deb12u37.88.1-10+deb12u48.4.0-2
redhat/curl<7.84.0
7.84.0
Apple macOS Ventura<13
13
haxx curl<7.84.0
Fedoraproject Fedora=35
Debian Debian Linux=10.0
Debian Debian Linux=11.0
NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP
NetApp Element Software
NetApp Hci Management Node
NetApp Solidfire
NetApp Bootstrap Os
NetApp Hci Compute Node
NetApp H300s Firmware
NetApp H300s
NetApp H500s Firmware
NetApp H500s
NetApp H700s Firmware
NetApp H700s
NetApp H410s Firmware
NetApp H410s
Siemens Scalance Sc622-2c Firmware<3.0
Siemens Scalance Sc622-2c
Siemens Scalance Sc626-2c Firmware<3.0
Siemens Scalance Sc626-2c
Siemens Scalance Sc632-2c Firmware<3.0
Siemens Scalance Sc632-2c
Siemens Scalance Sc636-2c Firmware<3.0
Siemens Scalance Sc636-2c
Siemens Scalance Sc642-2c Firmware<3.0
Siemens Scalance Sc642-2c
Siemens Scalance Sc646-2c Firmware<3.0
Siemens Scalance Sc646-2c
All of the following
NetApp Hci Compute Node
NetApp Bootstrap Os
All of the following
NetApp H300s
NetApp H300s Firmware
All of the following
NetApp H500s
NetApp H500s Firmware
All of the following
NetApp H700s
NetApp H700s Firmware
All of the following
NetApp H410s
NetApp H410s Firmware
All of the following
Siemens Scalance Sc622-2c
Siemens Scalance Sc622-2c Firmware<3.0
All of the following
Siemens Scalance Sc626-2c
Siemens Scalance Sc626-2c Firmware<3.0
All of the following
Siemens Scalance Sc632-2c Firmware<3.0
Siemens Scalance Sc632-2c
All of the following
Siemens Scalance Sc636-2c Firmware<3.0
Siemens Scalance Sc636-2c
All of the following
Siemens Scalance Sc642-2c Firmware<3.0
Siemens Scalance Sc642-2c
All of the following
Siemens Scalance Sc646-2c Firmware<3.0
Siemens Scalance Sc646-2c
Splunk Universal Forwarder>=8.2.0<8.2.12
Splunk Universal Forwarder>=9.0.0<9.0.6
Splunk Universal Forwarder=9.1.0
Microsoft cbl2 curl 7.84.0-1
Patch available
Microsoft cm1 curl 7.84.0-1
Patch available

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade redhat/jbcs-httpd24-curl to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 0:7.86.0-2.el8
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade redhat/jbcs-httpd24-curl to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 0:7.86.0-2.el7
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade redhat/curl to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 0:7.61.1-22.el8_6.4
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade redhat/curl to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 0:7.61.1-18.el8_4.3
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade redhat/curl to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 0:7.76.1-14.el9_0.5
  6. Upgrade

    Upgrade debian/curl to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 7.64.0-4+deb10u7Fixed in 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u9Fixed in 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u10Fixed in 7.88.1-10+deb12u3Fixed in 7.88.1-10+deb12u4Fixed in 8.4.0-2
  7. Upgrade

    Upgrade macOS Ventura to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 13
  8. Upgrade

    Upgrade redhat/curl to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 7.84.0
  9. Upgrade

    Upgrade curl to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 7.84.0Patch Multiple issues were addressed by updating to curl version 7.84.0.
  10. Configuration

    Prevent use of chained HTTP compression algorithms (multiple/composed compression steps), since curl versions earlier than 7.84.0 support them and the unbounded decompression chain can cause a malloc bomb/DoS.

    curl chained HTTP compression algorithms = disabled
  11. Configuration

    Remove the additional entitlements related to this issue on third-party apps, as described: “This issue was addressed by removing additional entitlements.”

    third-party apps sandbox sandbox entitlements / entitlements removed = removed (vulnerable entitlements)
  12. Configuration

    Use the improved code signature validation logic/checks mentioned in the text: “An issue in code signature validation was addressed with improved checks.”

    code signing validation certificate/code signature validation checks = improved
  13. Compensating control

    Apply the “additional sandbox restrictions” for third-party apps to address the described access issues: “An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions on third-party apps,” and “An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions,” and “An access issue was addressed with improved access restrictions.”

Event History

Jun 20, 2022
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·02:02 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software
Jun 27, 2022
CVE Published
12:00 AM
Jul 7, 2022
CVE Published
via MITRE·12:00 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeakness
Jul 19, 2022
Data Sourced
via Microsoft·07:00 AM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness
Data Sourced
via Microsoft·07:00 AM
Affected Software
Updated
via Microsoft·07:00 AM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness

Parent advisories

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Frequently Asked Questions

1

What is CVE-2022-32206?

CVE-2022-32206 is a vulnerability in curl that allows a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of links in the decompression chain.

2

How severe is CVE-2022-32206?

CVE-2022-32206 has a severity rating of 6.5 (Medium).

3

What software is affected by CVE-2022-32206?

Software versions of curl < 7.84.0 and some versions of jbcs-httpd24-curl, curl for Red Hat, curl for Debian, and Apple macOS Ventura are affected by CVE-2022-32206.

4

How can I fix CVE-2022-32206?

To fix CVE-2022-32206, update your curl software to version 7.84.0 or higher.

5

Where can I find more information about CVE-2022-32206?

You can find more information about CVE-2022-32206 at the following sources: CVE website, NIST NVD, curl documentation, Red Hat Bugzilla, and Red Hat Security Advisory.

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