Gentoo: GLSA 200909-20 Normal: cURL Certificate Handling Issue
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September 25, 2009
An error in the X.509 certificate handling of cURL might enable remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200909-20
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: cURL: Certificate validation error
Date: September 25, 2009
Bugs: #281515
ID: 200909-20
Synopsis
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An error in the X.509 certificate handling of cURL might enable remote
attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks.
Background
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cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax,
supporting numerous protocols.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-misc/curl < 7.19.6 >= 7.19.6
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Scott Cantor reported that cURL does not properly handle fields in
X.509 certificates that contain an ASCII NUL (\0) characte...
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