Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2014-0138 Steve Holme discovered that libcurl can in some circumstances re-use the wrong connection when asked to do transfers using other protocols than HTTP and FTP. CVE-2014-0139 Richard Moore from Westpoint Ltd. reported that libcurl does not behave compliant to RFC 2828 under certain conditions and incorrectly validates wildcard SSL certificates containing literal IP addresses.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze8. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 7.26.0-1+wheezy9. For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 7.36.0-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 7.36.0-1. We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.

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.

curl on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2902.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25