Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for curl (ALAS-2016-652) (CVE-2016-0755)
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
01/29/2016
07/25/2018
02/12/2016
10/30/2017
Description
The ConnectionExists function in lib/url.c in libcurl before 7.47.0 does not properly re-use NTLM-authenticated proxy connections, which might allow remote attackers to authenticate as other users via a request, a similar issue to CVE-2014-0015.
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-upgrade-curl
- amazon-linux-upgrade-curl-debuginfo
- amazon-linux-upgrade-libcurl
- amazon-linux-upgrade-libcurl-devel
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