USN-3498-1: curl vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3498-1
29th November, 2017
curl vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 17.10
- Ubuntu 17.04
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in curl.
Software description
- curl - HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries
Details
Alex Nichols discovered that curl incorrectly handled NTLM authentication
credentials. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.04 and Ubuntu 17.10.
(CVE-2017-8816)
It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled FTP wildcard matching. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a
denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information.
(CVE-2017-8817)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 17.10:
- libcurl3-nss 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.2
- curl 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.2
- libcurl3-gnutls 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.2
- libcurl3 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.2
- Ubuntu 17.04:
- libcurl3-nss 7.52.1-4ubuntu1.4
- curl 7.52.1-4ubuntu1.4
- libcurl3-gnutls 7.52.1-4ubuntu1.4
- libcurl3 7.52.1-4ubuntu1.4
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
- libcurl3-nss 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5
- curl 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5
- libcurl3-gnutls 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5
- libcurl3 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
- libcurl3-nss 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13
- curl 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13
- libcurl3-gnutls 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13
- libcurl3 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13
To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/2BwQfRJ