USN-2399-1: curl vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 14.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• curl - HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries

Details

Symeon Paraschoudis discovered that curl incorrectly handled memory when
being used with CURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS and curl_easy_duphandle(). This may
result in sensitive data being incorrectly sent to the remote server.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10

• libcurl3 - 7.37.1-1ubuntu3.1
• libcurl3-gnutls - 7.37.1-1ubuntu3.1
• libcurl3-nss - 7.37.1-1ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• libcurl3 - 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.2
• libcurl3-gnutls - 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.2
• libcurl3-nss - 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 12.04

• libcurl3 - 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.11
• libcurl3-gnutls - 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.11
• libcurl3-nss - 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.11

Ubuntu 10.04

• libcurl3 - 7.19.7-1ubuntu1.10
• libcurl3-gnutls - 7.19.7-1ubuntu1.10

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-3707