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Ubuntu: USN-2882-1 (CVE-2016-0755): curl vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-2882-1 (CVE-2016-0755): curl vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/27/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/02/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

The ConnectionExists function in lib/url.c in libcurl before 7.47.0 does not properly re-use NTLM-authenticated proxy connections, which might allow remote attackers to authenticate as other users via a request, a similar issue to CVE-2014-0015.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libcurl3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libcurl3-gnutls
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libcurl3-nss

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