Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: USN-4402-1 Moderate: Curl Information Exposure

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June 24, 2020

Several security issues were fixed in curl.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in curl.

Software Description:

- curl: HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries

Details:

Marek Szlagor, Gregory Jefferis and Jeroen Ooms discovered

that curl incorrectly handled certain credentials. An attacker

could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.

This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

(CVE-2020-8169)

It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain parameters.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite a local file.

(CVE-2020-8177)

Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu information exposure curl local file overwrite

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  curl                            7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1
  libcurl3-gnutls                 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1
  libcurl3-nss                    7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1
  libcurl4                        7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 19.10:
  curl                            7.65.3-1ubuntu3.1
  libcurl3-gnutls                 7.65.3-1ubuntu3.1
  libcurl3-nss                    7.65.3-1ubuntu3.1
  libcurl4                        7.65.3-1ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  curl                            7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9
  libcurl3-gnutls                 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9
  libcurl3-nss                    7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9
  libcurl4                        7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  curl                            7.47.0-1ubuntu2.15
  libcurl3                        7.47.0-1ubuntu2.15
  libcurl3-gnutls                 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.15
  libcurl3-nss                    7.47.0-1ubuntu2.15

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
  curl                            7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm4
  libcurl3                        7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm4
  libcurl3-gnutls                 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm4
  libcurl3-nss                    7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm4

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM:
  curl                            7.22.0-3ubuntu4.28
  libcurl3                        7.22.0-3ubuntu4.28
  libcurl3-gnutls                 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.28
  libcurl3-nss                    7.22.0-3ubuntu4.28

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.