USN-3598-1: curl vulnerabilities

curl vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.10
• 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

Phan Thanh discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain FTP paths. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-1000120)

Dario Weisser discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain LDAP URLs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-1000121)

Max Dymond discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain RTSP data. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or even to get access to sensitive data. (CVE-2018-1000122)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.10

curl - 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.4

libcurl3 - 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.4

libcurl3-gnutls - 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.4

libcurl3-nss - 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.4

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

curl - 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7

libcurl3 - 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7

libcurl3-gnutls - 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7

libcurl3-nss - 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

curl - 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.15

libcurl3 - 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.15

libcurl3-gnutls - 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.15

libcurl3-nss - 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.15

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

• CVE-2018-1000120
• CVE-2018-1000121
• CVE-2018-1000122

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/2FUaluh