USN-86-1: cURL vulnerability

28 February 2005

cURL vulnerability

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Details

infamous41md discovered a buffer overflow in cURL's NT LAN Manager
(NTLM) authentication handling. By sending a specially crafted long
NTLM reply packet, a remote attacker could overflow the reply buffer.
This could lead to execution of arbitrary attacker specified code with
the privileges of the application using the cURL library.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 4.10
  • libcurl2-gssapi -
  • libcurl2 -

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

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