vulnerability

OS X update for curl (CVE-2016-5420)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 10, 2016
Added
Dec 16, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

curl and libcurl before 7.50.1 do not check the client certificate when choosing the TLS connection to reuse, which might allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of the connection by leveraging a previously created connection with a different client certificate.

Solution

apple-osx-upgrade-10_12_2
Title
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