USN-4129-2: curl vulnerability
USN-4129-2: curl vulnerability curl vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Ubuntu 12.04 ESM Summary curl could be made to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code if it incorrectly handled memory during TFTP transfers. Software Description curl – HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries Details USN-4129-1 fixed a vulnerability in curl. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Thomas Vegas discovered that curl incorrectly handled memory during TFTP transfers. A remote attacker could use this issue to crash curl, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM curl – 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm3 libcurl3 – 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm3 libcurl3-gnutls – 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm3 libcurl3-nss – 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm3 [ more… ]