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Debian Security Advisory: DSA-2849-1 Addresses Curl Auth Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey January 31, 2014
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Uncover vital information surrounding DSA-2849-1 related to curl, focusing on user credential mishandlings that could result in potential data leaks.
Paras Sethia discovered that libcurl, a client-side URL transfer library, would sometimes mix up multiple HTTP and HTTPS connections with NTLM authentication to the same server, se...

Summary

Paras Sethia discovered that libcurl, a client-side URL transfer
library, would sometimes mix up multiple HTTP and HTTPS connections
with NTLM authentication to the same server, sending requests for one
user over the connection authenticated as a different user.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze7.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.26.0-1+wheezy8.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.35.0-1.

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-2014-0015

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