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Ubuntu: USN-4402-1 (CVE-2020-8177): curl vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4402-1 (CVE-2020-8177): curl vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/24/2020
Created
06/27/2020
Added
06/25/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

curl 7.20.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to improper restriction of names for files and other resources that can lead too overwriting a local file when the -J flag is used.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-curl
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libcurl3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libcurl3-gnutls
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libcurl3-nss
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libcurl4

References

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