USN-6535-1: curl vulnerabilities

6 December 2023

Several security issues were fixed in curl.

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Packages

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

Details

Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled mixed case cookie
domains. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to set cookies
that get sent to different and unrelated sites and domains.
(CVE-2023-46218)

Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered that curl incorrectly handled long file
names when saving HSTS data. This could result in curl losing HSTS data,
and subsequent requests to a site would be done without it, contrary to
expectations. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.04 and Ubuntu 23.10.
(CVE-2023-46219)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 23.10
Ubuntu 23.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

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

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