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Debian: DSA-2660-1 Critical: cURL Information Exposure Advisory

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Calendar Grey April 20, 2013
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Stay vigilant with your infrastructures by reviewing the recent curl security notice DSA-2660-1 that addresses potential data leakage vulnerabilities.
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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