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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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-711-1 curl security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3705-1 curl security update
EUVD EUVD 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3123-1 curl vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

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Updated: 2024-08-06T02:27:40.954Z

Reserved: 2016-10-12T00:00:00.000Z

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

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-11-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-8616 - Bugzilla

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