USN-5495-2: curl regression

USN-5495-2: curl regression

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/rss.xml / Mon, 09/29/2025 - 17:41
USN-5495-1 fixed vulnerabilities in curl. The fix for CVE-2022-32205 miscalculated the maximum cookie size, causing a regression. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain cookies. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 21.10, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-32205) Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain HTTP compressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-32206) Harry Sintonen incorrectly handled certain file permissions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 21.10, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-32207) Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain FTP-KRB messages. An attacker could possibly use this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack. (CVE-2022-32208)

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