USN-2882-1: curl vulnerability

Publication date

27 January 2016

Overview

curl would incorrectly re-use credentials.


Packages

  • curl - HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries

Details

Isaac Boukris discovered that curl could incorrectly re-use NTLM proxy
credentials when subsequently connecting to the same host.

Isaac Boukris discovered that curl could incorrectly re-use NTLM proxy
credentials when subsequently connecting to the same host.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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