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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-8616: Vulnerability in libcurl

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-8616: Vulnerability in libcurl

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51.0 When re-using a connection, curl was doing case insensitive comparisons of user name and password with the existing connections. This means that if an unused connection with proper credentials exists for a protocol that has connection-scoped credentials, an attacker can cause that connection to be reused if s/he knows the case-insensitive version of the correct password.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-curl-7-45-0-0-175-3-18-0-1-0

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