Is the curl Important CVE-2023-38545 in SOCKS proxy hostname fixed in RHEL?

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Issue

  • Is the curl Important CVE-2023-38545 in SOCKS proxy hostname fixed in RHEL?
  • Will RHEL update to libcurl 8.4.0 or later?
  • libcurl-8.4.0 not available in RedHat 8
  • curl security vulnerability in CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME buffer length overflow

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, 8, 7, 6
  • curl package providing libcurl library

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