Debian: DSA-2824-1 Moderate: Curl Digital Signature Verification Flaw
debian
December 19, 2013
Marc Deslauriers discovered that curl, a file retrieval tool, would mistakenly skip verifying the CN and SAN name fields when digital signature verification was disabled in the lib...
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Summary
The default configuration for the curl package is not affected by this
issue since the digital signature verification is enabled by default.
The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.26.0-1+wheezy7.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.34.0-1.
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-2013-6422
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