USN-4466-2: curl vulnerability

Publication date

20 August 2020

Overview

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

Releases


Packages

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

Details

USN-4466-1 fixed a vulnerability in curl. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory 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.

USN-4466-1 fixed a vulnerability in curl. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory 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.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
14.04 trusty libcurl3-gnutls –  7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm5
libcurl3-nss –  7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm5
curl –  7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm5

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