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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4007-1 curl -- security update

Date Reported:

27 Oct 2017

Affected Packages:

curl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-1000257.

More information:

Brian Carpenter, Geeknik Labs and 0xd34db347 discovered that cURL, an URL transfer library, incorrectly parsed an IMAP FETCH response with size 0, leading to an out-of-bounds read.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 7.38.0-4+deb8u7.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 7.52.1-5+deb9u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 7.56.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.