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OS X update for curl (CVE-2016-5419)

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OS X update for curl (CVE-2016-5419)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/10/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/16/2016
Modified
03/18/2020

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)

  • apple-osx-upgrade-10_12_2

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