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OS X update for curl (CVE-2016-8625)

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OS X update for curl (CVE-2016-8625)

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

Description

curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially and unknowingly issue network transfer requests to the wrong host.

Solution(s)

  • apple-osx-upgrade-10_12_2

References

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