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Debian: DSA-2798-2 Moderate: Curl SSL Host Verification Issue

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Calendar Grey November 20, 2013
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A remedy has been applied to address the curl regression impacting host verification when the --insecure flag is utilized in Debian.
The update for curl in DSA-2798-1 uncovered a regression affecting the curl command line tool behaviour (#729965)

Summary

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze6.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.26.0-1+wheezy6.

For the testing (jessie) and unstable (sid) distributions, the curl
command line tool behaves as expected with the --insecure option.

For reference the original advisory text follows.

Scott Cantor discovered that curl, a file retrieval tool, would disable
the CURLOPT_SSLVERIFYHOST check when the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER setting
was disabled. This would also disable ssl certificate host name checks
when it should have only disabled verification of the certificate trust
chain.

The default configuration for the curl package is not affected by this
issue since CURLOPT_SSLVERIFYPEER is enabled by default.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze5.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.26.0-1+wheezy5.

For the testin...

Read the Full Advisory

Package: curl
CVE ID: CVE-2013-4545

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