Medium: curl

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in curl. This flaw lies in the --ssl-reqd option or related settings in libcurl. Users specify this flag to upgrade to TLS when communicating with either IMAP, POP3 or a FTP server. An attacker controlling such servers could return a crafted response which could lead to curl client continue its operation without TLS encryption leading to data being transmitted in clear text over the network. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. (CVE-2021-22946)

A flaw was found in curl. The flaw lies in how curl handles cached or pipelined responses that it receives from either a IMAP, POP3, SMTP or FTP server before the TLS upgrade using STARTTLS. In such a scenario curl even after upgrading to TLS would trust these cached responses treating them as valid and authenticated and use them. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to carry out a Man-In-The-Middle attack. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. (CVE-2021-22947)

Affected Packages:

curl

Issue Correction:
Run yum update curl to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    libcurl-7.61.1-12.100.amzn1.i686  
    curl-debuginfo-7.61.1-12.100.amzn1.i686  
    curl-7.61.1-12.100.amzn1.i686  
    libcurl-devel-7.61.1-12.100.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    curl-7.61.1-12.100.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    curl-7.61.1-12.100.amzn1.x86_64  
    libcurl-7.61.1-12.100.amzn1.x86_64  
    curl-debuginfo-7.61.1-12.100.amzn1.x86_64  
    libcurl-devel-7.61.1-12.100.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2021-22946, CVE-2021-22947

Mitre: CVE-2021-22946, CVE-2021-22947