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Vigil@nce - cURL: three vulnerabilities
October 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can use several vulnerabilities of cURL.
– Impacted products: cURL, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, openSUSE Leap,
Slackware, Ubuntu.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Creation date: 03/08/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
Several vulnerabilities were announced in cURL.
The TLS client of libcurl can resume a session even if the client
certificate changed, which may lead to the authentication with an
incorrect identity. [severity:2/4; CVE-2016-5419]
The TLS client of libcurl can reuse a session even if the client
certificate changed, which may lead to the authentication with an
incorrect identity. [severity:2/4; CVE-2016-5420]
An attacker can force the usage of a freed memory area via
curleasyinit(), in order to trigger a denial of service, and
possibly to run code. [severity:2/4; CVE-2016-5421]
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/cURL-three-vulnerabilities-20295
