vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-3739: curl TLS certificate check bypass with mbedTLS/PolarSSL

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 20, 2016
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Oct 30, 2017

Description

The (1) mbed_connect_step1 function in lib/vtls/mbedtls.c and (2) polarssl_connect_step1 function in lib/vtls/polarssl.c in cURL and libcurl before 7.49.0, when using SSLv3 or making a TLS connection to a URL that uses a numerical IP address, allow remote attackers to spoof servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-curl
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