CVE catalog
CVE-2023-34188
swupdate: CVE-2023-34188
- Severity
- Medium
- Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 1.00% · Oct 25, 2026
The HTTP server in Mongoose before 7.10 accepts requests containing negative Content-Length headers. By sending a single attack payload over TCP, an attacker can cause an infinite loop in which the server continuously reparses that payload, and does not respond to any other requests.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | swupdate | sid | 2026.05.1+git20261001+dfsg-2 | fixed |
| Debian | swupdate | forky | 2026.05.1+git20261001+dfsg-2 | fixed |
| Debian | swupdate | trixie | 2024.12.1+dfsg-3+deb13u2 | fixed |
| Debian | swupdate | bookworm | 2022.12+dfsg-4+deb12u2 | vulnerable |
| Debian | swupdate | bookworm-security | 2022.12+dfsg-4+deb12u3 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | swupdate | source | sid | 2024.12+dfsg-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | swupdate | source | forky | 2024.12+dfsg-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | swupdate | source | trixie | 2024.12+dfsg-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | swupdate | source | bookworm | (unfixed) | not yet assigned | Not reported | Not reported |
Notes
[bookworm] swupdate: Minor issue
OpenFactory catalog packages
Matching against OpenFactory catalog package versions is in progress.