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OS X update for curl (CVE-2021-22945)

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OS X update for curl (CVE-2021-22945)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/23/2021
Created
03/19/2022
Added
03/18/2022
Modified
11/26/2024

Description

When sending data to an MQTT server, libcurl <= 7.73.0 and 7.78.0 could in some circumstances erroneously keep a pointer to an already freed memory area and both use that again in a subsequent call to send data and also free it *again*.

Solution(s)

  • apple-osx-upgrade-12_3

References

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