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Red Hat 6 RHSA-2017:0847-01 Moderate: curl Authentication Issue

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Calendar Grey March 29, 2017
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An update for curl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The curl packages provide the libcurl library and the curl utility for downloading files from servers using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP.
Security Fix(es):
* It was found that the fix for CVE-2015-3148 in curl was incomplete. An application using libcurl with HTTP Negotiate authentication could incorrectly re-use credentials for subsequent requests to the same server. (CVE-2017-2628)
This issue was discovered by Paulo Andrade (Red Hat).

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity authentication issue DoS threat curl

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2628 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: curl-7.19.7-53.el6_9.src.rpm
i386: curl-7.19.7-53.el6_9.i686.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.19.7-53.el6_9.i686.rpm libcurl-7.19.7-53.el6_9.i686.rpm
x86_64: curl-7.19.7-53.el6_9.x86_64.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.19.7-53.el6_9.i686.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.19.7-53.el6_9.x86_64.rpm libcurl-7.19.7-53.el6_9.i686.rpm libcurl-7.19.7-53.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
i386: curl-debuginfo-7.19.7-53.el6_9.i686.rpm libcurl-devel-7.19.7-53.el6_9.i686.rpm
x86_64: curl-debuginfo-7.19.7-53.el6_9.i686.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.19.7-53.el6_9.x86_64.rpm libcurl-devel-7.19.7-53.el6_9.i686.rpm libcurl-devel-7.19.7-53.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source: curl-7.19.7-53.el6_9.src.rpm
x86_64: curl-7.19.7-53.el6_9.x86_64.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.19.7-53.el6_9.i686.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.19.7-53.el6_9.x86_64.rpm libcurl-7.19.7-53.el6_9.i686.rpm libcurl-7.19.7-53.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):
x86_64: curl-debuginfo-7.19.7-53.el6_9.i686.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.19.7-53.el6_9.x86_64.rpm libcurl-devel-7.19.7-53.el6_9.i686.rpm libcurl-devel-7.19.7-53.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: curl-7.19.7-53.el6_9.src.rpm
i386: curl-7.19.7-53.el6_9.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0847-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0847.html
Issue date: 2017-03-29

Topic

An update for curl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity authentication issue DoS threat curl

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1422464 - CVE-2017-2628 curl: negotiate not treated as connection-oriented (incomplete fix for CVE-2015-3148)

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