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Debian Jessie: DSA-3705-1 Critical: Curl Memory Access Problems

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2016
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Improve your curl packages on Debian to resolve various critical vulnerabilities and boost your system's protection.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library: CVE-2016-8615

Summary

CVE-2016-8615

It was discovered that a malicious HTTP server could inject new
cookies for arbitrary domains into a cookie jar.

CVE-2016-8616

It was discovered that when re-using a connection, curl was doing case
insensitive comparisons of user name and password with the existing
connections.

CVE-2016-8617

It was discovered that on systems with 32-bit addresses in userspace
(e.g. x86, ARM, x32), the output buffer size value calculated in the
base64 encode function would wrap around if input size was at least
1GB of data, causing an undersized output buffer to be allocated.

CVE-2016-8618

It was discovered that the curl_maprintf() function could be tricked
into doing a double-free due to an unsafe size_t multiplication on
systems using 32 bit size_t variables.

CVE-2016-8619

It was discovered that that the Kerberos implementation could be
tricked into doing a double-free when reading one of the length fields
from a socket.

CVE-2016-8620

It was ...

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Package: curl
CVE ID: CVE-2016-8615 CVE-2016-8616 CVE-2016-8617 CVE-2016-8618

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