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SUSE: CVE-2016-8625: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-8625: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
11/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/19/2018
Modified
06/07/2020

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curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially and unknowingly issue network transfer requests to the wrong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

  • suse-upgrade-curl
  • suse-upgrade-libcurl-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libcurl4
  • suse-upgrade-libcurl4-32bit

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