CVE-2010-0734: Curl Libcurl

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

content_encoding.c in libcurl 7.10.5 through 7.19.7, when zlib is enabled, does not properly restrict the amount of callback data sent to an application that requests automatic decompression, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or have unspecified other impact by sending crafted compressed data to an application that relies on the intended data-length limit.

Affected products

• Curl Libcurl: version 7.10.5 only; version 7.10.6 only; version 7.10.7 only; version 7.10.8 only; version 7.11.0 only; version 7.11.1 only; …

Published 2010-03-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.