vulnerability
Oracle Database: Critical Patch Update - October 2023 (CVE-2023-38039)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Oct 17, 2023 | Oct 18, 2023 | Aug 11, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 17, 2023
Added
Oct 18, 2023
Modified
Aug 11, 2025
Description
When curl retrieves an HTTP response, it stores the incoming headers so that
they can be accessed later via the libcurl headers API.
However, curl did not have a limit in how many or how large headers it would
accept in a response, allowing a malicious server to stream an endless series
of headers and eventually cause curl to run out of heap memory.
Solution
oracle-apply-oct-2023-cpu
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