USN-4466-1: curl vulnerability

Publication date

19 August 2020

Overview

curl could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.


Packages

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

Details

Marc Aldorasi discovered that curl incorrectly handled the libcurl
CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY option. This could result in data being sent to the
wrong destination, possibly exposing sensitive information.

Marc Aldorasi discovered that curl incorrectly handled the libcurl
CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY option. This could result in data being sent to the
wrong destination, possibly exposing sensitive information.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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