December 2005

ID: 01083
Ref: 1018/2005
Date: 12 December 2005:15:21:44
Version: 1

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Title: OpenPKG Security Advisory: OpenPKG-SA-2005.028 - curl
Abstract:
Vendors affected: OpenPKG
Operating systems affected: OpenPKG
Applications affected: OpenPKG

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OpenPKG Security Advisory: OpenPKG-SA-2005.028 - curl

Detail
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According to a vendor security advisory [0], a Denial of Service (DoS)
vulnerability exist in "libcurl", the underlying library of the cURL
[1] networking tool.



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OpenPKG Security Advisory The OpenPKG Project
http://www.openpkg.org/security.html http://www.openpkg.org
openpkg-security@openpkg.org openpkg@openpkg.org
OpenPKG-SA-2005.028 10-Dec-2005
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Package: curl
Vulnerability: denial of service
OpenPKG Specific: no

Affected Releases: Affected Packages: Corrected Packages:
OpenPKG CURRENT <= curl-7.15.0-20051206 >= curl-7.15.1-20051207
<= openpkg-20051206-20051206 >= openpkg-20051207-20051207
OpenPKG 2.5 <= curl-7.15.0-2.5.0 >= curl-7.15.0-2.5.1
<= openpkg-2.5.0-2.5.0 >= openpkg-2.5.1-2.5.1
OpenPKG 2.4 <= curl-7.14.0-2.4.1 >= curl-7.14.0-2.4.2
<= openpkg-2.4.2-2.4.2 >= openpkg-2.4.3-2.4.3
OpenPKG 2.3 <= curl-7.13.0-2.3.1 >= curl-7.13.0-2.3.2
<= openpkg-2.3.5-2.3.5 >= openpkg-2.3.6-2.3.6

Dependent Packages: aegis, apache [with_mod_php_curl=yes],
clamav, heartbeat, perl-net [with_curl=yes],
php [with_curl=yes], php5 [with_curl=yes],
vorbis-tools, xine-ui

Description:
According to a vendor security advisory [0], a Denial of Service (DoS)
vulnerability exist in "libcurl", the underlying library of the cURL
[1] networking tool.

Two off-by-one errors in libcurl's URL parser allow a buffer overflow
and cause a DoS via certain URLs that (1) are malformed in a way
that prevents a terminating NUL byte from being added to either
a hostname or path buffer, or (2) contain a "?" separator in the
hostname portion, which causes a "/" to be prepended to the resulting
string.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id
CVE-2005-4077 [2] to the problem.
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References:
[0] http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20051207.html
[1] http://curl.haxx.se/
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4077
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