USN-3498-1: curl vulnerabilities
29 November 2017
Several security issues were fixed in curl.
Releases
Packages
- curl - HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries
Details
Alex Nichols discovered that curl incorrectly handled NTLM authentication
credentials. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.04 and Ubuntu 17.10.
(CVE-2017-8816)
It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled FTP wildcard matching. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a
denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information.
(CVE-2017-8817)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 17.10
-
curl
-
7.55.1-1ubuntu2.2
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libcurl3
-
7.55.1-1ubuntu2.2
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libcurl3-gnutls
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7.55.1-1ubuntu2.2
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libcurl3-nss
-
7.55.1-1ubuntu2.2
Ubuntu 17.04
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curl
-
7.52.1-4ubuntu1.4
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libcurl3
-
7.52.1-4ubuntu1.4
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libcurl3-gnutls
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7.52.1-4ubuntu1.4
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libcurl3-nss
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7.52.1-4ubuntu1.4
Ubuntu 16.04
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curl
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7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5
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libcurl3
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7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5
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libcurl3-gnutls
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7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5
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libcurl3-nss
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7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5
Ubuntu 14.04
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curl
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7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13
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libcurl3
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7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13
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libcurl3-gnutls
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7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13
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libcurl3-nss
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7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-3498-2: libcurl3, libcurl3-gnutls, libcurl3-nss, curl