K16708: cURL and libcurl vulnerabilities CVE-2015-3144 and CVE-2015-3145

Security Advisory Description CVE-2015-3144 The fixhostname function in cURL and libcurl 7.37.0 through 7.41.0 does not properly calculate an index, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read or write and crash or possibly have other unspecified impact via a...

Out-of-bounds

The sanitizecookiepath function in cURL and libcurl 7.31.0 through 7.41.0 does not properly calculate an index, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write and crash or possibly have other unspecified impact via a cookie path containing only a double-quote...

cURL -- multiple vulnerabilities

cURL reports: libcurl keeps a pool of its last few connections around after use to facilitate easy, convenient, and completely transparent connection re-use for applications. When doing HTTP requests NTLM authenticated, the entire connection becomes authenticated and not just the specific HTTP...