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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.702902
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2902-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'curl' package(s) announced via the DSA-2902-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'curl' package(s) announced via the DSA-2902-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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.

Affected Software/OS:
'curl' package(s) on Debian 6, Debian 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.4

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-0138
Bugtraq: 20141205 NEW: VMSA-2014-0012 - VMware vSphere product updates address security vulnerabilities (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-2902 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2902
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23
http://secunia.com/advisories/57836
http://secunia.com/advisories/57966
http://secunia.com/advisories/57968
http://secunia.com/advisories/58615
http://secunia.com/advisories/59458
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2014:0530 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-04/msg00042.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2167-1
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-0139
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:213
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