USN-726-1 fixed a vulnerability in curl. Due to an incomplete fix, a regression was introduced in Ubuntu 8.10 that caused certain types of URLs to fail. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. [More...]

==========================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-726-2             March 04, 2009
curl regression
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/+bug/337501
==========================================================
A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 8.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

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

Ubuntu 8.10:
  libcurl3                        7.18.2-1ubuntu4.3
  libcurl3-gnutls                 7.18.2-1ubuntu4.3

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

Details follow:

USN-726-1 fixed a vulnerability in curl. Due to an incomplete fix, a regression
was introduced in Ubuntu 8.10 that caused certain types of URLs to fail. This
update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

 It was discovered that curl did not enforce any restrictions when following
 URL redirects. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a URL to
 an untrusted server, an attacker could use redirects to gain access to abitrary
 files. This update changes curl behavior to prevent following "file" URLs after
 a redirect.


Updated packages for Ubuntu 8.10:

  Source archives:

          Size/MD5:    22444 f03a34d199a3dfe6862d4f93b6704e10
          Size/MD5:     1491 906af0232a5e1c0a02e921eb508eff57
          Size/MD5:  2273077 4fe99398a64a34613c9db7bd61bf6e3c

  amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon):

          Size/MD5:   210392 605f35f7ab21dc4ed16205f73f5ce335
          Size/MD5:  1124818 52b6531b8d0ba56e47844b90faaa7d88
          Size/MD5:   216220 700b648d0e4b4346da9dd4ba9421962f
          Size/MD5:   223312 58580fc77cdd1a93439ee92875aee1fc
          Size/MD5:   926208 16822154e80a941fd4305169d7979379
          Size/MD5:   933192 ae5cc0e338e4f2d9f43ceac6c92303f0

  i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD):

          Size/MD5:   209182 e34d8187746e820d6328fdc4540e7e73
          Size/MD5:  1092044 3d9e9bf04f0dd77c09ff967ce0822011
          Size/MD5:   212674 bdad3624169c184cdee7153dfdc61a16
          Size/MD5:   219586 e9b3008f8cb5047b326b4d3f1f6e0323
          Size/MD5:   899702 6dd63d112bdc8055636b2c8edfdd24a2
          Size/MD5:   905420 ff0b8f23fd90555ffe215698ac644cdf

  lpia architecture (Low Power Intel Architecture):

          Size/MD5:   208850 1c452ad9122b12518bf1b5c8b3996c3b
          Size/MD5:  1099132 7735bb7e7c240be1a5f9ee749a67eb6e
          Size/MD5:   210934 5f3eea9bf9eece8f91200332c6f41b6a
          Size/MD5:   217456 eebef9ad6914c70cb38b0fa08875233c
          Size/MD5:   898570 21805c5b24e9477670aad07d167d56ab
          Size/MD5:   903918 90628d272b4301c968ef5cf446c778fe

  powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5):

          Size/MD5:   212598 4003e25fccb2f67b75f451e60d7e9362
          Size/MD5:  1130394 f755328b6c0df8b6963ea39255594cfb
          Size/MD5:   223766 b72e7008472791b08bba97fc57857f1b
          Size/MD5:   229632 d891ef64864441ba7f2496c29b57d49a
          Size/MD5:   925530 35c2284ab719cb773592ea4bc8679af6
          Size/MD5:   931828 f29cf3a604d660801e1b011fa409af90

  sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC):

          Size/MD5:   209654 b25b0908a500fb1c6ba5e9af876249ac
          Size/MD5:  1072608 7c3c67a9fcd09e1807a22d6ba110790e
          Size/MD5:   209368 cb36362b891401548905671dee5057db
          Size/MD5:   214076 49e05a9531109bcc7cbbce75adb29681
          Size/MD5:   904932 56300cb1c407a1b90d23b72a22df0b56
          Size/MD5:   909964 92dc9ddcf638da3dcac80c7f90373b10