Several vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library.

CVE-2016-7141

When built with NSS and the libnsspem.so library is available at runtime, allows an remote attacker to hijack the authentication of a TLS connection by leveraging reuse of a previously loaded client certificate from file for a connection for which no certificate has been set, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5420.

CVE-2016-7167

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) curl_escape, (2) curl_easy_escape, (3) curl_unescape, and (4) curl_easy_unescape functions in libcurl allow attackers to have unspecified impact via a string of length 0xffffffff, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVE-2016-9586

Curl is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when doing a large floating point output in libcurl's implementation of the printf() functions. If there are any applications that accept a format string from the outside without necessary input filtering, it could allow remote attacks.

CVE-2018-16839

Curl is vulnerable to a buffer overrun in the SASL authentication code that may lead to denial of service.

CVE-2018-16842

Curl is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the tool_msgs.c:voutf() function that may result in information exposure and denial of service.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 7.38.0-4+deb8u13.

We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

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