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Message-ID: <8r03095n-p8q4-srpr-431q-593ror3sss45@unkk.fr>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 09:33:00 +0100 (CET)
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@...x.se>
To: Fay Stegerman <flx@...usk.net>
cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [SECURITY ADVISORY] curl: CVE-2025-0725: gzip
 integer overflow

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025, Fay Stegerman wrote:

>> libcurl featured code that at run-time takes a different code path for zlib
>> versions before 1.0.2.4 because of lack of functionality in those old
>> versions, and this rarely used piece of code contained the vulnerable code
>> path.
>
> I assume this last version should have been 1.2.0.4 as before and not 
> 1.0.2.4?

Correct, this has been fixed already in the document version we host.

> Which, whilst I doubt we'll see such a zlib version any time soon if ever 
> (though zlib-ng compat might get there a lot faster), would give an 
> incorrect result for e.g. version "1.10.0.0".

Thanks for pointing this out. I have proposed fix pending: 
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/16202

-- 

  / daniel.haxx.se

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