Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4386-1 curl -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 06 Feb 2019
- Affected Packages:
- curl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-16890, CVE-2019-3822, CVE-2019-3823.
- More information:
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Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library.
- CVE-2018-16890
Wenxiang Qian of Tencent Blade Team discovered that the function handling incoming NTLM type-2 messages does not validate incoming data correctly and is subject to an integer overflow vulnerability, which could lead to an out-of-bounds buffer read.
- CVE-2019-3822
Wenxiang Qian of Tencent Blade Team discovered that the function creating an outgoing NTLM type-3 header is subject to an integer overflow vulnerability, which could lead to an out-of-bounds write.
- CVE-2019-3823
Brian Carpenter of Geeknik Labs discovered that the code handling the end-of-response for SMTP is subject to an out-of-bounds heap read.
For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 7.52.1-5+deb9u9.
We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.
For the detailed security status of curl please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/curl
- CVE-2018-16890