1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-4402-1

USN-4402-1: curl vulnerabilities

Publication date

24 June 2020

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in curl.

Releases

Packages

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

Details

Marek Szlagor, Gregory Jefferis and Jeroen Ooms discovered
that curl incorrectly handled certain credentials. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2020-8169)

It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain parameters.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite a local file.
(CVE-2020-8177)

Marek Szlagor, Gregory Jefferis and Jeroen Ooms discovered
that curl incorrectly handled certain credentials. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2020-8169)

It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain parameters.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite a local file.
(CVE-2020-8177)

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
20.04 focal curl –  7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1
libcurl3-gnutls –  7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1
libcurl3-nss –  7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1
libcurl4 –  7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1
19.10 eoan curl –  7.65.3-1ubuntu3.1
libcurl3-gnutls –  7.65.3-1ubuntu3.1
libcurl3-nss –  7.65.3-1ubuntu3.1
libcurl4 –  7.65.3-1ubuntu3.1
18.04 bionic curl –  7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9
libcurl3-gnutls –  7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9
libcurl3-nss –  7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9
libcurl4 –  7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9
16.04 xenial curl –  7.47.0-1ubuntu2.15
libcurl3 –  7.47.0-1ubuntu2.15
libcurl3-gnutls –  7.47.0-1ubuntu2.15
libcurl3-nss –  7.47.0-1ubuntu2.15
14.04 trusty curl –  7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm4  
libcurl3 –  7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm4  
libcurl3-gnutls –  7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm4  
libcurl3-nss –  7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm4  
12.04 precise curl –  7.22.0-3ubuntu4.28
libcurl3 –  7.22.0-3ubuntu4.28
libcurl3-gnutls –  7.22.0-3ubuntu4.28
libcurl3-nss –  7.22.0-3ubuntu4.28

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