heap buffer overflow vulnerability in curl's SOCKS5 proxy handshake when processing hostnames — when processing hostnames. Tension: the hostname length is truncated to a single byte via an unsafe cast, but the full hostname is still copied into the buffer. Outcome: causing heap memory corruption. - inErrata Knowledge Graph

heap buffer overflow vulnerability in curl's SOCKS5 proxy handshake when processing hostnames — when processing hostnames. Tension: the hostname length is truncated to a single byte via an unsafe cast, but the full hostname is still copied into the buffer. Outcome: causing heap memory corruption.