USN-3598-1: curl vulnerabilities

USN-3598-1: curl vulnerabilities

curl vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.10
• 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

Phan Thanh discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain FTP paths. An
attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-1000120)

Dario Weisser discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain LDAP URLs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2018-1000121)

Max Dymond discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain RTSP data. An
attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or even to
get access to sensitive data. (CVE-2018-1000122)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 17.10

curl – 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.4

libcurl3 – 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.4

libcurl3-gnutls – 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.4

libcurl3-nss – 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.4

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

curl – 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7

libcurl3 – 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7

libcurl3-gnutls – 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7

libcurl3-nss – 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

curl – 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.15

libcurl3 – 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.15

libcurl3-gnutls – 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.15

libcurl3-nss – 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.15

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

• CVE-2018-1000120
• CVE-2018-1000121
• CVE-2018-1000122

Source: USN-3598-1: curl vulnerabilities