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

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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
08/10/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/22/2016
Modified
10/14/2022

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(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-curl

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