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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-5420: Vulnerability in libcurl

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-5420: Vulnerability in libcurl

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/10/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

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(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-curl-7-45-0-0-175-3-15-0-1-0

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