{"id":20898,"date":"2017-12-05T01:34:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-3498-2-curl-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T01:34:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:34:50","slug":"usn-3498-2-curl-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-3498-2-curl-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"USN-3498-2: curl vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USN-3498-2: curl vulnerability<\/p>\n<h2>Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3498-2<\/h2>\n<p><em>4th December, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>curl vulnerability<\/h3>\n<p>A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its<br \/>\n    derivatives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ubuntu 12.04 LTS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>curl could be made to crash if it received specially crafted<br \/>\ninput.\n<\/p>\n<h3>Software description<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>curl<br \/>\n    &#8211; HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Details<\/h3>\n<p>USN-3498-1 fixed a vulnerability in curl. This update provides<br \/>the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.<\/p>\n<p>Original advisory details:<\/p>\n<p> It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled FTP wildcard matching. A<br \/> remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a<br \/> denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information.<br \/> (<a href=\"http:\/\/people.ubuntu.com\/~ubuntu-security\/cve\/CVE-2017-8817\">CVE-2017-8817<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3>Update instructions<\/h3>\n<p> The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following<br \/>\npackage version:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:<\/dt>\n<dd>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/curl\">libcurl3-nss<\/a><br \/>\n    <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/curl\/7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19\">7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span>\n  <\/dd>\n<dd>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/curl\">curl<\/a><br \/>\n    <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/curl\/7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19\">7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span>\n  <\/dd>\n<dd>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/curl\">libcurl3-gnutls<\/a><br \/>\n    <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/curl\/7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19\">7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span>\n  <\/dd>\n<dd>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/curl\">libcurl3<\/a><br \/>\n    <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/curl\/7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19\">7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span>\n  <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>To update your system, please follow these instructions:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades\">https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/people.ubuntu.com\/~ubuntu-security\/cve\/CVE-2017-8817\">CVE-2017-8817<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/usn\/usn-3498-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">USN-3498-2: curl vulnerability<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>USN-3498-2: curl vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3498-2 4th December, 2017 curl vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary curl could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input. Software description curl &#8211; HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries Details USN-3498-1 fixed a vulnerability in curl. This update providesthe corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: 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) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: libcurl3-nss 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19 curl 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19 libcurl3-gnutls 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19 libcurl3 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.19 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-3498-2-curl-vulnerability\/\" title=\"USN-3498-2: curl vulnerability\">[ more&#8230; ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-20898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-usn","tag-ubuntu-usn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20899,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898\/revisions\/20899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}