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Daniel Stenberg
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- 1Two ARM64 compiler bugs hit curl in GCC and Rust toolchains▼Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl
curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg reports that two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, one in GCC 15/16 and one in the Rust compiler, have affected curl. The bugs, triggered by aggressive optimization on 64-bit ARM platforms, caused miscompiled code in the widely used data transfer library. The report has drawn attention from developers discussing the risks compiler bugs pose to critical open-source infrastructure.
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curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg has disclosed that twenty-two security vulnerabilities are currently pending release in the widely used command-line tool and library for transferring data. The news is drawing attention from developers and security researchers, given curl's near-ubiquitous presence in operating systems, applications, and infrastructure worldwide.