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Debian Security Advisory DSA-4051-1                   security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/                        Yves-Alexis Perez
November 29, 2017                     https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : curl
CVE ID         : CVE-2017-8816 CVE-2017-8817

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library.

CVE-2017-8816

    Alex Nichols discovered a buffer overrun flaw in the NTLM authentication
    code which can be triggered on 32bit systems where an integer overflow
    might occur when calculating the size of a memory allocation.

CVE-2017-8817

    Fuzzing by the OSS-Fuzz project led to the discovery of a read out of
    bounds flaw in the FTP wildcard function in libcurl. A malicious server
    could redirect a libcurl-based client to an URL using a wildcard pattern,
    triggering the out-of-bound read.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed
in version 7.38.0-4+deb8u8.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in
version 7.52.1-5+deb9u3.

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/source-package/curl

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Debian: DSA-4051-1: curl security update

November 29, 2017
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library

Summary

CVE-2017-8816

Alex Nichols discovered a buffer overrun flaw in the NTLM authentication
code which can be triggered on 32bit systems where an integer overflow
might occur when calculating the size of a memory allocation.

CVE-2017-8817

Fuzzing by the OSS-Fuzz project led to the discovery of a read out of
bounds flaw in the FTP wildcard function in libcurl. A malicious server
could redirect a libcurl-based client to an URL using a wildcard pattern,
triggering the out-of-bound read.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed
in version 7.38.0-4+deb8u8.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in
version 7.52.1-5+deb9u3.

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/source-package/curl

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Severity
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library.

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