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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2398-2 curl -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

31 Mar 2012

Affected Packages:

curl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 658276.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-3389, CVE-2012-0036.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2011-3389

  This update enables OpenSSL workarounds against the BEAST attack. Additional information can be found in the cURL advisory

• CVE-2012-0036

  Dan Fandrich discovered that cURL performs insufficient sanitising when extracting the file path part of an URL.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 7.18.2-8lenny6.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 7.24.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.