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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1346-1
January 24, 2012
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Summary:
curl could be tricked into injecting arbitrary data if it handled a
malicious URL.
Software Description:
Details:
Dan Fandrich discovered that curl incorrectly handled URLs containing
embedded or percent-encoded control characters. If a user or automated
system were tricked into processing a specially crafted URL, arbitrary
data could be injected.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 11.10:
libcurl3 7.21.6-3ubuntu3.2
libcurl3-gnutls 7.21.6-3ubuntu3.2
libcurl3-nss 7.21.6-3ubuntu3.2
Ubuntu 11.04:
libcurl3 7.21.3-1ubuntu1.5
libcurl3-gnutls 7.21.3-1ubuntu1.5
libcurl3-nss 7.21.3-1ubuntu1.5
Ubuntu 10.10:
libcurl3 7.21.0-1ubuntu1.3
libcurl3-gnutls 7.21.0-1ubuntu1.3
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1346-1
CVE-2012-0036
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.21.6-3ubuntu3.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.21.3-1ubuntu1.5
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.21.0-1ubuntu1.3