CVE-2021-22945

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

When sending data to an MQTT server, libcurl <= 7.73.0 and 7.78.0 could in some circumstances erroneously keep a pointer to an already freed memory area and both use that again in a subsequent call to send data and also free it *again*.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-22945.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-22945

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed7.79.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed7.79.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed7.74.0-1.3+deb11u2
debian debianforkyfixed7.79.1-1
debian debiansidfixed7.79.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed7.79.1-1
suse slesaffected

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.