USN-3498-1

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USN-3498-1

Summary: curl vulnerabilities

Details: Alex Nichols discovered that curl incorrectly handled NTLM authentication credentials. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.04 and Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2017-8816) It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled FTP wildcard matching. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2017-8817)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3498-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8816, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8817