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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2295-1 curl -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

28 Jul 2020

Affected Packages:

curl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-8177.

More information:

A vulnerbailty was found in curl, a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax.

When using when using -J (--remote-header-name) and -i (--include) in the same command line, a malicious server could force curl to overwrite the contents of local files with incoming HTTP headers.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 7.52.1-5+deb9u11.

We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.

For the detailed security status of curl please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/curl

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS