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Debian Wheezy: DLA-1121-1 Critical: Curl Out-Of-Bounds Read

debian lts
Calendar Grey October 5, 2017
Dist Debian Esm H88
Critical memory safety flaw in curl addressed with security patch on Ubuntu. Users encouraged to update for enhanced defense against vulnerabilities.
It was discovered that there was a out-of-bounds read vulnerability in curl, a command-line and library for transferring data over HTTP/FTP, etc
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security advisory debian curl out-of-bounds_read critical_threat data_transfer

Summary

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For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in curl version
7.26.0-1+wheezy21.

We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.


Regards,

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Package: curl
Version: 7.26.0-1+wheezy21
CVE ID: CVE-2017-1000254
Debian Bug: #877671

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