USN-3441-2: curl vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

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

Details

USN-3441-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in curl. This update
provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Daniel Stenberg discovered that curl incorrectly handled large floating
point output. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2016-9586)

Even Rouault discovered that curl incorrectly handled large file names when
doing TFTP transfers. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl
to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive
memory contents. (CVE-2017-1000100)

Brian Carpenter and Yongji Ouyang discovered that curl incorrectly handled
numerical range globbing. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause
curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain
sensitive memory contents. (CVE-2017-1000101)

Max Dymond discovered that curl incorrectly handled FTP PWD responses. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a
denial of service. (CVE-2017-1000254)

Brian Carpenter discovered that curl incorrectly handled IMAP FETCH
response lines. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code.(CVE-2017-1000257)

Brian Carpenter discovered that curl incorrectly handled the --write-out
command line option. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to
obtain sensitive memory contents. (CVE-2017-7407)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04

• libcurl3-nss - 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.18
• curl - 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.18
• libcurl3-gnutls - 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.18
• libcurl3 - 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.18

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

References

• CVE-2016-9586
• CVE-2017-1000100
• CVE-2017-1000254
• CVE-2017-1000257
• CVE-2017-7407

Related notices

• USN-3441-1: libcurl3-nss, libcurl4-nss-dev, libcurl3-udeb, curl, libcurl3-gnutls, libcurl4-gnutls-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev, libcurl3, curl-udeb, libcurl4-doc
• USN-3457-1: libcurl3-nss, libcurl4-nss-dev, libcurl3-udeb, curl, libcurl3-gnutls, libcurl4-gnutls-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev, libcurl3, curl-udeb, libcurl4-doc