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USN228-1 : curl vulnerability

Vulnerability Assessment Summary curl vulnerability Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Summary : These remote packages are missing security patches : - curl - libcurl2 - libcurl2-dbg - libcurl2-dev - libcurl2-gssapi - libcurl3 - libcurl3-dbg - libcurl3-dev - libcurl3-gssapi Description : Stefan Esser discovered several buffer overflows in the handling of URLs. By attempting to load an URL with a specially crafted invalid hostname, a local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the application that uses the cURL library. It is not possible to trick cURL into loading a malicious URL with an HTTP redirect, so this vulnerability was usually not exploitable remotely. However, it could be exploited locally to e. g. circumvent PHP security restrictions. Solution : Upgrade to : - curl-7.14.0-2ubuntu1.2 (Ubuntu 5.10) - libcurl2-7.11.2-12ubuntu3.3 (Ubuntu 5.04) - libcurl2-dbg-7.12.0.is.7.11.2-1ubuntu0.3 (Ubuntu 4.10) - libcurl2-dev-7.11.2-12ubuntu3.3 (Ubuntu 5.04) - libcurl2-gssapi-7.12.0.is.7.11.2-1ubuntu0.3 (Ubuntu 4.10) - libcurl3-7.14.0-2ubuntu1.2 (Ubuntu 5.10) - libcurl3-dbg-7.14.0-2ubuntu1.2 (Ubuntu 5.10) - libcurl3-dev-7.14.0-2ubuntu1.2 (Ubuntu 5.10) - libcurl3-gssapi-7.14.0-2ubuntu1.2 (Ubuntu 5.10) Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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