metadata/glsa/glsa-200603-19.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200603-19">
  <title>cURL/libcurl: Buffer overflow in the handling of TFTP URLs</title>
  <synopsis>
    libcurl is affected by a buffer overflow in the handling of URLs for the
    TFTP protocol, which could be exploited to compromise a user's system.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">curl</product>
  <announced>March 21, 2006</announced>
  <revised>March 21, 2006: 01</revised>
  <bug>125766</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/curl" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="rge">7.15.1-r1</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="ge">7.15.3</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="le">7.14.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">7.15.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL
    syntax, supporting numerous protocols. libcurl is the corresponding
    client-side library.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Ulf Harnhammar reported a possible buffer overflow in the handling
    of TFTP URLs in libcurl due to the lack of boundary checks.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to compromise a
    user's system by enticing the user to request a malicious URL with
    cURL/libcurl or to use a HTTP server redirecting to a malicious TFTP
    URL.
    </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 &quot;&gt;=net-misc/curl-7.15.1-r1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20060320.html">Project cURL Security Advisory, March 20th 2006</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1061">CVE-2006-1061</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:27:58 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:28:46 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:09:32 +0000">
    vorlon078
  </metadata>
</glsa>