gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201712-04.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201712-04">
  <title>cURL: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in cURL, the worst of
    which may allow execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">curl</product>
  <announced>2017-12-14</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-12-14</revised>
  <bug>633430</bug>
  <bug>635140</bug>
  <bug>638734</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/curl" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">7.57.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">7.57.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>A command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs.</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>Remote attackers could cause a Denial of Service condition, disclose
      sensitive information or other unspecified impacts.
    </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-7.57.0"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-1000254">
      CVE-2017-1000254
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-1000257">
      CVE-2017-1000257
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8816">
      CVE-2017-8816
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8817">
      CVE-2017-8817
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8818">
      CVE-2017-8818
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-11-29T04:20:30Z">jmbailey</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-12-14T18:43:49Z">jmbailey</metadata>
</glsa>