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Debian DSA-2902-1 Critical: cURL Compliance and Protocol Issues

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Calendar Grey April 13, 2014
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Serious vulnerabilities in cURL identified; users advised to upgrade on Ubuntu platforms. Discover more details about the problems and their resolutions.
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library
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Summary

CVE-2014-0138

Steve Holme discovered that libcurl can in some circumstances re-use
the wrong connection when asked to do transfers using other
protocols than HTTP and FTP.

CVE-2014-0139

Richard Moore from Westpoint Ltd. reported that libcurl does not
behave compliant to RFC 2828 under certain conditions and
incorrectly validates wildcard SSL certificates containing literal
IP addresses.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze8.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 7.26.0-1+wheezy9.

For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 7.36.0-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 7.36.0-1.

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/...

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Package: curl
CVE ID: CVE-2014-0138 CVE-2014-0139

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