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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-5419: Security patch for curl (ALAS-2016-730)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 10, 2016
Added
Aug 22, 2016
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

curl and libcurl before 7.50.1 do not prevent TLS session resumption when the client certificate has changed, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions by resuming a session.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-curl

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