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Gentoo: GLSA-201909-01 Moderate Severity: cURL Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2015
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Several security flaws in cURL may result in Denial of Service scenarios. Users should update promptly for their safety within Gentoo environments.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in cURL, the worst of which can allow remote attackers to cause Denial of Service condition.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cURL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo software update remote attack Denial of Service normal severity cURL

Resolution

All cURL users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/curl-7.43.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-3143 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3143 [ 2 ] CVE-2015-3144 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3144 [ 3 ] CVE-2015-3145 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3145 [ 4 ] CVE-2015-3148 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3148 [ 5 ] CVE-2015-3236 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3236 [ 6 ] CVE-2015-3237 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3237

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201509-02
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: cURL: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: September 24, 2015
Bugs: #547376, #552618
ID: 201509-02

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo software update remote attack Denial of Service normal severity cURL

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in cURL, the worst of which can allow remote attackers to cause Denial of Service condition.

Background

cURL is a tool and libcurl is a library for transferring data with URL syntax.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/curl < 7.43.0 >= 7.43.0

Impact

===== A remote attacker could possibly obtain sensitive information, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.