Debian: DSA-2660-1 Critical: cURL Information Exposure Advisory
debian
April 20, 2013
Yamada Yasuharu discovered that cURL, an URL transfer library, is vulnerable to expose potentially sensitive information when doing requests across domains with matching tails
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Summary
Both curl the command line tool and applications using the libcurl
library are vulnerable.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze3.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.26.0-1+wheezy2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.29.0-2.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
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Package: curl
CVE ID: CVE-2013-1944
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