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How curl was accidentally Turing-complete for nine months

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-10-30 Cached

A technical writeup showing that curl 8.12 through 8.16 accidentally became Turing-complete via variable slicing and unbounded config-file includes, allowing any two-counter Minsky program to be compiled into config files, until curl 8.17 added a five-level include cap that breaks the reduction.

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