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Ubuntu 24.04: USN-6944-1 Critical: Curl Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey August 5, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The latest advisory on Curl vulnerabilities underscores the dangers linked to altered traffic patterns that may lead to service disruptions or sensitive data exposure
curl could be made to crash or expose information if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

curl could be made to crash or expose information if it received specially

crafted network traffic.

Software Description:

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

Details:

Dov Murik discovered that curl incorrectly handled parsing ASN.1

Generalized Time fields. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause

curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain

sensitive memory contents.

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Topics Covered

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
   curl                            8.5.0-2ubuntu10.2
   libcurl3t64-gnutls              8.5.0-2ubuntu10.2
   libcurl4t64                     8.5.0-2ubuntu10.2

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
   curl                            7.81.0-1ubuntu1.17
   libcurl3-gnutls                 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.17
   libcurl3-nss                    7.81.0-1ubuntu1.17
   libcurl4                        7.81.0-1ubuntu1.17

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
   curl                            7.68.0-1ubuntu2.23
   libcurl3-gnutls                 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.23
   libcurl3-nss                    7.68.0-1ubuntu2.23
   libcurl4                        7.68.0-1ubuntu2.23

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6944-1

CVE-2024-7264

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6944-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu software issue network traffic curl

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/8.5.0-2ubuntu10.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.81.0-1ubuntu1.17
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.68.0-1ubuntu2.23

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