A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51.0 When re-using a connection, curl was doing case insensitive comparisons of user name and password with the existing connections. This means that if an unused connection with proper credentials exists for a protocol that has connection-scoped credentials, an attacker can cause that connection to be reused if s/he knows the case-insensitive version of the correct password.
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DLA-711-1 | curl security update |
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DSA-3705-1 | curl security update |
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EUVD-2016-9461 | A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51.0 When re-using a connection, curl was doing case insensitive comparisons of user name and password with the existing connections. This means that if an unused connection with proper credentials exists for a protocol that has connection-scoped credentials, an attacker can cause that connection to be reused if s/he knows the case-insensitive version of the correct password. |
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USN-3123-1 | curl vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T02:27:40.954Z
Reserved: 2016-10-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-8616

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Status : Modified
Published: 2018-08-01T06:29:00.287
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:59:41.003
Link: CVE-2016-8616


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