USN-4402-1: curl vulnerabilities
curl vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 19.10
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
- Ubuntu 12.04 ESM
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in curl.
Software Description
- curl – HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries
Details
Marek Szlagor, Gregory Jefferis and Jeroen Ooms discovered
that curl incorrectly handled certain credentials. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2020-8169)
It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain parameters.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite a local file.
(CVE-2020-8177)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- curl – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1
- libcurl3-gnutls – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1
- libcurl3-nss – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1
- libcurl4 – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1
- Ubuntu 19.10
- curl – 7.65.3-1ubuntu3.1
- libcurl3-gnutls – 7.65.3-1ubuntu3.1
- libcurl3-nss – 7.65.3-1ubuntu3.1
- libcurl4 – 7.65.3-1ubuntu3.1
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- curl – 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9
- libcurl3-gnutls – 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9
- libcurl3-nss – 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9
- libcurl4 – 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- curl – 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.15
- libcurl3 – 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.15
- libcurl3-gnutls – 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.15
- libcurl3-nss – 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.15
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
- curl – 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm4
- libcurl3 – 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm4
- libcurl3-gnutls – 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm4
- libcurl3-nss – 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm4
- Ubuntu 12.04 ESM
- curl – 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.28
- libcurl3 – 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.28
- libcurl3-gnutls – 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.28
- libcurl3-nss – 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.28
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-4402-1: curl vulnerabilities
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