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USN-484-1: curl vulnerability

17 July 2007

curl vulnerability

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Details

It was discovered that the GnuTLS certificate verification methods
implemented in Curl did not check for expiration and activation dates.
When performing validations, tools using libcurl3-gnutls would
incorrectly allow connections to sites using expired certificates.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 7.04
  • libcurl3-gnutls - 7.15.5-1ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu 6.10
  • libcurl3-gnutls - 7.15.4-1ubuntu2.2
Ubuntu 6.06
  • libcurl3-gnutls - 7.15.1-1ubuntu2.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to
effect the necessary changes.

References