gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201406-21.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201406-21">
  <title>cURL: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cURL, the worst of
    which could lead to man-in-the-middle attacks.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">curl</product>
  <announced>2014-06-22</announced>
  <revised count="1">2014-06-22</revised>
  <bug>505864</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/curl" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">7.36.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">7.36.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax,
      supporting numerous protocols.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cURL. Please review the
      CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could cause a man-in-the-middle attack via a crafted
      certificate issued by a legitimate certification authority. Furthermore,
      a context-dependent attacker may be able to bypass security restrictions
      by connecting as other users.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All cURL users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/curl-7.36.0"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0138">CVE-2014-0138</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0139">CVE-2014-0139</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2014-06-10T01:49:53Z">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-06-22T13:14:51Z">K_F</metadata>
</glsa>