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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1869-1] New curl packages fix SSL certificate verificat

    From Nico Golde@1:229/2 to All on Wed Aug 19 23:30:12 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-1869-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde August 19th, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : curl
    Vulnerability : insufficient input validation
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    Debian bug : 541991
    CVE ID : CVE-2009-2417

    It was discovered that curl, a client and library to get files from servers using HTTP, HTTPS or FTP, is vulnerable to the "Null Prefix Attacks Against SSL/TLS Certificates" recently published at the Blackhat conference. This allows an attacker to perform undetected man-in-the-middle attacks via a crafted ITU-T X.509 certificate with an injected null byte in the Common
    Name field.


    For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
    version 7.15.5-1etch3.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 7.18.2-8lenny3.

    For the testing (squeeze) and unstable (sid) distribution, this problem
    will be fixed soon.


    We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
    - -------------------------------

    Debian (oldstable)
    - ------------------

    Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/curl_7.15.5-1etch3.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 20848 22dce2fb112906acd2e76df82944f142
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/curl_7.15.5.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1897973 61997c0d852d38c3a85b445f4fc02892
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/curl_7.15.5-1etch3.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 956 4f03313c10cd1ec65210f1100a131e9f

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-dev_7.15.5-1etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 22324 7619264c8f7e53dc59a7e69230c676b5

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-openssl-dev_7.15.5-1etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 823424 d3d084cf7ccddfebd627de8609850096
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-dbg_7.15.5-1etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 816330 6fb28fafc75898049bd7226e60a28c7e
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3_7.15.5-1etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 182050 936d5870de61974aef21011a2da57747
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls-dev_7.15.5-1etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 811900 daa9077f99711ca6d575e90fe004d632
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/curl_7.15.5-1etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 166818 6ba797a423a742377851db81da0489cb
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls_7.15.5-1etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 175416 bd25fa6d94404424ae1357cf48041707

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/curl_7.15.5-1etch3_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 163976 1c79712071486c997e73fd35a4eb0336
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-openssl-dev_7.15.5-1etch3_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 778648 e153b2bd7dce8074f567ed33e1ef216c
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-dbg_7.15.5-1etch3_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 824510 3492a7bd3567e3e67aff98be386f3a7a
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls-dev_7.15.5-1etch3_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 771278 09f1f1c8c5bf1131f283489eb19bea86
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3_7.15.5-1etch3_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 171372 eadeb465edb9926433190a908690b826
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls_7.15.5-1etch3_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 165714 13e4041382c7e0020ce5b8899aea849e

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-dbg_7.15.5-1etch3_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 783540 57a19c0995e99f1e3772c6580666e6b4
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls-dev_7.15.5-1etch3_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 757016 f79f0930f7d10e6e4c3429be15985bb6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls_7.15.5-1etch3_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 160382 b3564444217dac4e915942b31d9b350b
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/curl_7.15.5-1etch3_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 162466 efde9a4c89e98d95caf65f5c022565f8
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-openssl-dev_7.15.5-1etch3_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 761008 999d5239e559ac6eaab2d57f4f775564
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3_7.15.5-1etch3_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 166120 4e49cb3a1fb7fe0ffb76cd229b2540fb

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls_7.15.5-1etch3_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 179010 7cc2d6c3a74e16c5ca43255a6da8eb15
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls-dev_7.15.5-1etch3_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 791294 a85d121cb7b254bd56a2c327eb17ea8a
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/curl/libcurl3-dbg_7.15.5-1etch3_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 815272 279b123045458876f7ed6d195dd58086

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