Ubuntu Security Notice 3598-1 - Phan Thanh discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain FTP paths. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Dario Weisser discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain LDAP URLs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Max Dymond discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain RTSP data. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or even to get access to sensitive data. Various other issues were also addressed.
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3598-1
March 15, 2018
curl vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 17.10
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary:
Several security issues were fixed in curl.
Software Description:
- curl: HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries
Details:
Phan Thanh discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain FTP paths. An
attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-1000120)
Dario Weisser discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain LDAP URLs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2018-1000121)
Max Dymond discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain RTSP data. An
attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or even to
get access to sensitive data. (CVE-2018-1000122)
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 17.10:
curl 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.4
libcurl3 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.4
libcurl3-gnutls 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.4
libcurl3-nss 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.4
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
curl 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7
libcurl3 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7
libcurl3-gnutls 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7
libcurl3-nss 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
curl 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.15
libcurl3 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.15
libcurl3-gnutls 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.15
libcurl3-nss 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.15
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3598-1
CVE-2018-1000120, CVE-2018-1000121, CVE-2018-1000122
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.55.1-1ubuntu2.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.35.0-1ubuntu2.15