USN-3993-1: curl vulnerabilities curl vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in curl. Software Description curl – HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries Details Wenchao Li discovered that curl incorrectly handled memory in the curl_url_set() function. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.04. (CVE-2019-5435) It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled memory when receiving data from a TFTP server. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-5436) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to [ more… ]