Improper Authentication Affecting curl package, versions <7.51.0-1
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- published3 Oct 2016
- disclosed3 Oct 2016
Introduced: 3 Oct 2016
CVE-2016-7141 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9 curl to version 7.51.0-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl package and not the curl package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
curl and libcurl before 7.50.2, when built with NSS and the libnsspem.so library is available at runtime, allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of a TLS connection by leveraging reuse of a previously loaded client certificate from file for a connection for which no certificate has been set, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5420.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7141
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20160907.html
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7141
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_50_2~32
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00094.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1373229
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2575.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92754
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036739
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-7141