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Debian Out-of-Bounds Read: DSA-4007-1 Curl Critical Update

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2017
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To bolster security and address out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities from Debian Advisory DSA-4007-1, updating curl is essential. Follow these steps to secure your system
Brian Carpenter, Geeknik Labs and 0xd34db347 discovered that cURL, an URL transfer library, incorrectly parsed an IMAP FETCH response with size 0, leading to an out-of-bounds read
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed
in version 7.38.0-4+deb8u7.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.52.1-5+deb9u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.56.1-1.

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-2017-1000257

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