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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3638-1 (curl - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

7 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library: CVE-2016-5419 Bru Rom discovered that libcurl would attempt to resume a TLS session even if the client certificate had changed. CVE-2016-5420 It was discovered that libcurl did not consider client certificates when reusing TLS connections. CVE-2016-5421 Marcelo Echeverria and Fernando Munoz discovered that libcurl was vulnerable to a use-after-free flaw.

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 stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 7.38.0-4+deb8u4. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 7.50.1-1. We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)