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Debian: DSA-3455-1 Critical: cURL Proxy Authentication Issue

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2016
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4567-1: cURL security patch resolves header injection flaw, updating advised.
Isaac Boukris discovered that cURL, an URL transfer library, reused NTLM-authenticated proxy connections without properly making sure that the connection was authenticated with the...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.38.0-4+deb8u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.47.0-1.

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: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: curl
CVE ID: CVE-2016-0755

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