A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Summary: USN-5495-1 introduced a regression in curl Software Description: - curl: HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries Details: USN-5495-1 fixed vulnerabilities in curl. The fix for CVE-2022-32205 miscalculated the maximum cookie size, causing a regression. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain cookies. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 21.10, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-32205) Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain HTTP compressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-32206) Harry Sintonen incorrectly handled certain file permissions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubu...
Read the Full AdvisoryThe problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS curl 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.21 libcurl3-gnutls 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.21 libcurl3-nss 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.21 libcurl4 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.21 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5495-2
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5495-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/+bug/2118865
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.81.0-1ubuntu1.21
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