Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:59:14 -0500 Reply-To: Troy DawsonSender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux From: Troy Dawson Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: curl on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64 Comments: To: "scientific-linux-errata@fnal.gov" 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