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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-8284: Moderate: curl security and bug fix update (ALSA-2021-1610)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-8284: Moderate: curl security and bug fix update (ALSA-2021-1610)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/14/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

Description

A malicious server can use the FTP PASV response to trick curl 7.73.0 and earlier into connecting back to a given IP address and port, and this way potentially make curl extract information about services that are otherwise private and not disclosed, for example doing port scanning and service banner extractions.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-curl
  • alma-upgrade-libcurl
  • alma-upgrade-libcurl-devel
  • alma-upgrade-libcurl-minimal

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