USN-2882-1: curl vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 15.10
• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

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

Details

Isaac Boukris discovered that curl could incorrectly re-use NTLM proxy
credentials when subsequently connecting to the same host.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10

• libcurl3 - 7.43.0-1ubuntu2.1
• libcurl3-gnutls - 7.43.0-1ubuntu2.1
• libcurl3-nss - 7.43.0-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 15.04

• libcurl3 - 7.38.0-3ubuntu2.3
• libcurl3-gnutls - 7.38.0-3ubuntu2.3
• libcurl3-nss - 7.38.0-3ubuntu2.3

Ubuntu 14.04

• libcurl3 - 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.6
• libcurl3-gnutls - 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.6
• libcurl3-nss - 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.6

Ubuntu 12.04

• libcurl3 - 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.15
• libcurl3-gnutls - 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.15
• libcurl3-nss - 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.15

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

References

• CVE-2016-0755