DSA-2902-1 curl -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2902-1 curl -- security update

Date Reported:

13 Apr 2014

Affected Packages:

curl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 742728.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-0138, CVE-2014-0139.

More information:

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

• CVE-2014-0138

  Steve Holme discovered that libcurl can in some circumstances re-use the wrong connection when asked to do transfers using other protocols than HTTP and FTP.

• CVE-2014-0139

  Richard Moore from Westpoint Ltd. reported that libcurl does not behave compliant to RFC 2828 under certain conditions and incorrectly validates wildcard SSL certificates containing literal IP addresses.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze8.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 7.26.0-1+wheezy9.

For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 7.36.0-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 7.36.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.