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

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Who also guesses buffer overflow or use-after-free?

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Buffer overflows are like Lupus in House M.D.

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It’s not overflow. It’s never overflow.

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

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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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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

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Perfect article for my question. Appreciated.

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