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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-7141: Security patch for curl (ALAS-2016-742)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-7141: Security patch for curl (ALAS-2016-742)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/27/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/01/2017
Modified
05/03/2019

Description

curl and libcurl before 7.50.2, when built with NSS and the libnsspem.so library is available at runtime, allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of a TLS connection by leveraging reuse of a previously loaded client certificate from file for a connection for which no certificate has been set, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5420.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-curl

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