USN-3498-1: curl vulnerabilities

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7년 ago

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)