USN-3498-1: curl vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3498-1
29th November, 2017
curl vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 17.10
- Ubuntu 17.04
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in curl.
Software description
- curl
– HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries
Details
Alex Nichols discovered that curl incorrectly handled NTLM authentication
credentials. 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 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.04 and Ubuntu 17.10.
(CVE-2017-8816)
It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled FTP wildcard matching. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a
denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information.
(CVE-2017-8817)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 17.10:
-
libcurl3-nss
7.55.1-1ubuntu2.2
-
curl
7.55.1-1ubuntu2.2
-
libcurl3-gnutls
7.55.1-1ubuntu2.2
-
libcurl3
7.55.1-1ubuntu2.2
- Ubuntu 17.04:
-
libcurl3-nss
7.52.1-4ubuntu1.4
-
curl
7.52.1-4ubuntu1.4
-
libcurl3-gnutls
7.52.1-4ubuntu1.4
-
libcurl3
7.52.1-4ubuntu1.4
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
-
libcurl3-nss
7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5
-
curl
7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5
-
libcurl3-gnutls
7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5
-
libcurl3
7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
libcurl3-nss
7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13
-
curl
7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13
-
libcurl3-gnutls
7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13
-
libcurl3
7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13
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
Source: USN-3498-1: curl vulnerabilities
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