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USN-5079-1: curl vulnerabilities It was discovered that curl incorrect handled memory when sending data to an MQTT 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-2021-22945) Patrick Monnerat discovered that curl incorrectly handled upgrades to TLS. When receiving certain responses from servers, curl would continue without TLS even when the option to require a successful upgrade to TLS was specified. (CVE-2021-22946) Patrick Monnerat discovered that curl incorrectly handled responses received before STARTTLS. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject responses and intercept communications. (CVE-2021-22947) Source: USN-5079-1: curl vulnerabilities

USN-5078-1: Squashfs-Tools vulnerability Richard Weinberger discovered that Squashfs-Tools mishandled certain malformed SQUASHFS files. An attacker could this this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem. Source: USN-5078-1: Squashfs-Tools vulnerability