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Debian: DSA-3232-1 Critical Curl Update: Authentication Issues

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2015
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Debian Advisory DSA-3232-1 emphasizes crucial cURL security updates to fix vulnerabilities, protecting data transfer integrity and security.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library: CVE-2015-3143

Summary

CVE-2015-3143

NTLM-authenticated connections could be wrongly reused for requests
without any credentials set, leading to HTTP requests being sent
over the connection authenticated as a different user. This is
similar to the issue fixed in DSA-2849-1.

CVE-2015-3144

When parsing URLs with a zero-length hostname (such as ""),
libcurl would try to read from an invalid memory address. This could
allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash). This
issue only affects the upcoming stable (jessie) and unstable (sid)
distributions.

CVE-2015-3145

When parsing HTTP cookies, if the parsed cookie's "path" element
consists of a single double-quote, libcurl would try to write to an
invalid heap memory address. This could allow remote attackers to
cause a denial of service (crash). This issue only affects the
upcoming stable (jessie) and unstable (sid) distributions.

CVE-2015-3148

When doing HTTP requests using the Negotiate authentication method
...

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Package: curl
CVE ID: CVE-2015-3143 CVE-2015-3144 CVE-2015-3145 CVE-2015-3148

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