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Backporting CVE-2022-27774 fixes to older curl

From: Roberto C. Sánchez via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:25:39 -0500

I am in the process of trying to backport the fixes for CVE-2022-27774
(commits 620ea21 and 139a54e) to some older versions of cURL,
specifically I'm targeting some pre-7.83.0 versions (i.e., before the
refactor of 46620b9).

Because the code is somewhat different in the older versions I am
targeting, I am also trying to implement the associated tests (973-976
in commit 5295e8d). However, the tests also make use of some constructs
that seem to have been introduced fairly recently. As a result of that,
I am not able to verify my backported patch.

In particular, these two lines in 620ea21 refer to struct members which
are not present prior to 46620b9:

        Curl_safefree(data->state.aptr.user);
        Curl_safefree(data->state.aptr.passwd);

My thought is that in the older versions of curl the same is
accomplished by this instead:

        Curl_safefree(data->set.str[STRING_USERNAME]);
        Curl_safefree(data->set.str[STRING_PASSWORD]);

Is someone able to confirm that this is the correct way to deal with
CVE-2022-27774 in older curl releases?

Regards,

-Roberto

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Received on 2022-12-28