Scientific Linux: CVE-2009-0037 Moderate: curl Redirect Flaw

Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:59:14 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: curl on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: curl security update
Issue date:	2009-03-19
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-0037

David Kierznowski discovered a flaw in libcurl where it would not
differentiate between different target URLs when handling automatic
redirects. This caused libcurl to follow any new URL that it understood,
including the "file://" URL type. This could allow a remote server to
force a local libcurl-using application to read a local file instead of
the remote one, possibly exposing local files that were not meant to be
exposed. (CVE-2009-0037)

Note: Applications using libcurl that are expected to follow redirects
to "file://" protocol must now explicitly call curl_easy_setopt(3) and
set the newly introduced CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS option as required.

All running applications using libcurl must be restarted for the update
to take effect.

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
curl-7.10.6-9.rhel3.src.rpm
 i386:
curl-7.10.6-9.rhel3.i386.rpm
curl-devel-7.10.6-9.rhel3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
curl-7.10.6-9.rhel3.i386.rpm
curl-7.10.6-9.rhel3.x86_64.rpm
curl-devel-7.10.6-9.rhel3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
curl-7.12.1-11.1.el4_7.1.src.rpm
 i386:
curl-7.12.1-11.1.1.i386.rpm
curl-devel-7.12.1-11.1.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
curl-7.12.1-11.1.1.i386.rpm
curl-7.12.1-11.1.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm
curl-devel-7.12.1-11.1.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
curl-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.4.src.rpm
 i386:
curl-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.4.i386.rpm
curl-devel-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
curl-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.4.i386.rpm
curl-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.4.x86_64.rpm
curl-devel-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.4.i386.rpm
curl-devel-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.4.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson