4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Andrey Labunets of Facebook discovered that cURL, an URL transfer
library, fails to properly handle URLs with embedded end-of-line
characters. An attacker able to make an application using libcurl to
access a specially crafted URL via an HTTP proxy could use this flaw to
do additional requests in a way that was not intended, or insert
additional request headers into the request.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.26.0-1+wheezy12.
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem will be
fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.38.0-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.