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Subject:
Security ERRATA Moderate: curl on SL3.x i386/x86_64
From:
Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:47:03 -0500
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Synopsis:	Moderate: curl security update
Issue date:	2009-08-13
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-2417
CVE-2009-2417 curl: incorrect verification of SSL certificate with NUL 
in name

Scott Cantor reported that cURL is affected by the previously published
"null prefix attack", caused by incorrect handling of NULL characters in
X.509 certificates. If an attacker is able to get a carefully-crafted
certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority, the attacker 
could use the certificate during a man-in-the-middle attack and 
potentially confuse cURL into accepting it by mistake. (CVE-2009-2417)

All running applications using libcurl must be restarted for the update 
to take effect.

SL 3.0.x

      SRPMS:
curl-7.10.6-10.rhel3.src.rpm
      i386:
curl-7.10.6-10.rhel3.i386.rpm
curl-devel-7.10.6-10.rhel3.i386.rpm
      x86_64:
curl-7.10.6-10.rhel3.i386.rpm
curl-7.10.6-10.rhel3.x86_64.rpm
curl-devel-7.10.6-10.rhel3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson

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