MGASA-2021-0186 - Updated curl packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 12 Apr 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0186.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7, 8
CVE: CVE-2021-22876,
     CVE-2021-22890

libcurl does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically
populating the Referer: HTTP request header field in outgoing HTTP requests,
and therefore risks leaking sensitive data to the server that is the target of
the second HTTP request. (CVE-2021-22876)

TLS 1.3 session ticket proxy host mixup. (CVE-2021-22890)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28688
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2021-22876.html
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2021-22890.html
- https://curl.se/changes.html
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-22876
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-22890

SRPMS:
- 7/core/curl-7.71.0-1.2.mga7
- 8/core/curl-7.74.0-1.1.mga8

Mageia 2021-0186: curl security update

libcurl does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer: HTTP request header field in outgoing HTTP requests, and therefore risks leaking...

Summary

libcurl does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer: HTTP request header field in outgoing HTTP requests, and therefore risks leaking sensitive data to the server that is the target of the second HTTP request. (CVE-2021-22876)
TLS 1.3 session ticket proxy host mixup. (CVE-2021-22890)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28688

- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2021-22876.html

- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2021-22890.html

- https://curl.se/changes.html

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-22876

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-22890

Resolution

MGASA-2021-0186 - Updated curl packages fix security vulnerabilities

SRPMS

- 7/core/curl-7.71.0-1.2.mga7

- 8/core/curl-7.74.0-1.1.mga8

Severity
Publication date: 12 Apr 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0186.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-22876, CVE-2021-22890

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