USN-3554-2: curl vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3554-2 31st January, 2018 curl vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary curl could be made to expose sensitive information. Software description curl – HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries Details USN-3554-1 fixed vulnerabilities in curl. This updateprovides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that curl could accidentally leak authentication data. An attacker could possibly use this to get access to sensitive information. (CVE-2018-1000007) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: libcurl3-nss 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.20 curl 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.20 libcurl3-gnutls 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.20 libcurl3 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.20 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References CVE-2018-1000007 Source: USN-3554-2: [ more… ]