cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/224873
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
Good. There's so much chain of trust in the OSS community that it's hard to keep up with the tens of thousands of libraries that literally hold up the Internet.
It's a shame we discover these critical bugs so late in the process, but at least we discover them at all…