USN-5499-1: curl vulnerabilities

Publication date

1 July 2022

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in curl.


Packages

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

Details

Florian Kohnhuser discovered that curl incorrectly handled returning a
TLS server’s certificate chain details. A remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause curl to stop responding, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2022-27781)

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)

Florian Kohnhuser discovered that curl incorrectly handled returning a
TLS server’s certificate chain details. A remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause curl to stop responding, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2022-27781)

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:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
16.04 xenial libcurl3-gnutls –  7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm4  
libcurl3-nss –  7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm4  
libcurl3 –  7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm4  
curl –  7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm4  
14.04 trusty libcurl3-gnutls –  7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm11  
libcurl3-nss –  7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm11  
libcurl3 –  7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm11  
curl –  7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm11  

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