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USN-5702-2: curl vulnerability

26 October 2022

curl could crash if it received a specially crafted POST operations after PUT operations.

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Releases

Packages

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

Details

USN-5702-1 fixed a vulnerability in curl. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Robby Simpson discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain POST
operations after PUT operations. This issue could cause applications using
curl to send the wrong data, perform incorrect memory operations, or crash.
(CVE-2022-32221)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

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

References

Related notices

  • USN-5702-1: libcurl3-nss, libcurl4-doc, libcurl4, curl, libcurl4-openssl-dev, libcurl4-nss-dev, libcurl4-gnutls-dev, libcurl3-gnutls
  • USN-5823-1: mysql-testsuite-5.7, mysql-server-core-5.7, mysql-server-5.7, libmysqld-dev, libmysqlclient20, mysql-source-8.0, mysql-5.7, mysql-server-core-8.0, mysql-8.0, libmysqlclient21, mysql-server-8.0, mysql-client-core-5.7, mysql-client-core-8.0, libmysqlclient-dev, mysql-testsuite, mysql-client-8.0, mysql-client, mysql-server, mysql-testsuite-8.0, mysql-client-5.7, mysql-router, mysql-source-5.7