libcurl could be made to expose sensitive information.
Paras Sethia and Yehezkel Horowitz discovered that libcurl incorrectly reused connections when NTLM authentication was being used. This could lead to the use of unintended credentials, possibly exposing sensitive information.
3 February 2014
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
libcurl could be made to expose sensitive information.
Paras Sethia and Yehezkel Horowitz discovered that libcurl incorrectly reused connections when NTLM authentication was being used. This could lead to the use of unintended credentials, possibly exposing sensitive information.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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