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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-586-1 curl -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

04 Aug 2016

Affected Packages:

curl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-5419, CVE-2016-5420.

More information:

• CVE-2016-5419

  Bru Rom discovered that libcurl would attempt to resume a TLS session even if the client certificate had changed.

• CVE-2016-5420

  It was discovered that libcurl did not consider client certificates when reusing TLS connections.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 7.26.0-1+wheezy14.

We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.

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