Summary
Paras Sethia discovered that libcurl, a client-side URL transfer library, would sometimes mix up multiple HTTP and HTTPS connections with NTLM authentication to the same server, sending requests for one user over the connection authenticated as a different user.
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze7.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 7.26.0-1+wheezy8.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 7.35.0-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.
Insight
curl is a client to get files from servers using any of the supported protocols. The command is designed to work without user interaction or any kind of interactivity.
Affected
curl on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-0015 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
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