Executive Summary

Summary
Title curl vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3457-1 First vendor Publication 2017-10-23
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-10-23
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score N/A Attack Range N/A
Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 17.10 - Ubuntu 17.04 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

curl could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description: - curl: HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries

Details:

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.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 17.10:
curl 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.1
libcurl3 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.1
libcurl3-gnutls 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.1
libcurl3-nss 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 17.04:
curl 7.52.1-4ubuntu1.3
libcurl3 7.52.1-4ubuntu1.3
libcurl3-gnutls 7.52.1-4ubuntu1.3
libcurl3-nss 7.52.1-4ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
curl 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.4
libcurl3 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.4
libcurl3-gnutls 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.4
libcurl3-nss 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.4

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
curl 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.12
libcurl3 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.12
libcurl3-gnutls 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.12
libcurl3-nss 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.12

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

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3457-1
CVE-2017-1000257

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.55.1-1ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.52.1-4ubuntu1.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.47.0-1ubuntu2.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.35.0-1ubuntu2.12

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3457-1

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Date Informations
2017-10-25 13:25:34
  • Multiple Updates
2017-10-23 17:23:10
  • First insertion