USN-5397-1: curl vulnerabilities

28 April 2022

Several security issues were fixed in curl.

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Releases

Packages

  • curl - HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries

Details

Patrick Monnerat discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain OAUTH2.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.
(CVE-2022-22576)

Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain requests.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.
(CVE-2022-27774, CVE-2022-27775, CVE-2022-27776)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 21.10
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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