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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-8177: Security patch for curl (ALAS-2020-1411)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-8177: Security patch for curl (ALAS-2020-1411)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/24/2020
Created
08/01/2020
Added
07/30/2020
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

curl 7.20.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to improper restriction of names for files and other resources that can lead too overwriting a local file when the -J flag is used.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-curl

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