USN-5495-1: curl vulnerabilities

Publication date

27 June 2022

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in curl.


Packages

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

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 Ubuntu 21.10, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-32207)

Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain FTP-KRB messages.
An attacker could possibly use this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack.
(CVE-2022-32208)

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 Ubuntu 21.10, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-32207)

Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain FTP-KRB messages.
An attacker could possibly use this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack.
(CVE-2022-32208)


Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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


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