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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2902-1 (curl - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.4

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

9 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2014-0138 Steve Holme discovered that libcurl can in some circumstances re-use the wrong connection when asked to do transfers using other protocols than HTTP and FTP. CVE-2014-0139 Richard Moore from Westpoint Ltd. reported that libcurl does not behave compliant to RFC 2828 under certain conditions and incorrectly validates wildcard SSL certificates containing literal IP addresses.

Insight

Insight

curl is a client to get files from servers using any of the supported protocols. The command is designed to work without user interaction or any kind of interactivity.

Affected Software

Affected Software

curl on Debian Linux

Detection Method

Detection Method

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

Solution

Solution

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze8. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 7.26.0-1+wheezy9. For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 7.36.0-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 7.36.0-1. We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)