Vulnerability CVE-2016-8616: Information
Description
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.
Severity: MEDIUM (5.9) Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Fixed packages
Package name | Branch | Fixed in version | Version from repository | Errata ID | Task # | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| curl | sisyphus | 7.51.0-alt1 | 8.7.1-alt2 | ALT-PU-2016-2231-1 | 171758 | Fixed |
| curl | p10 | 7.51.0-alt1 | 8.7.1-alt2 | ALT-PU-2016-2231-1 | 171758 | Fixed |
| curl | p9 | 7.51.0-alt1 | 7.79.0-alt2 | ALT-PU-2016-2231-1 | 171758 | Fixed |
| curl | p8 | 7.52.1-alt1.M80P.1 | 7.65.0-alt1 | ALT-PU-2016-2480-1 | 175378 | Fixed |
| curl | c10f1 | 7.51.0-alt1 | 8.6.0-alt1 | ALT-PU-2016-2231-1 | 171758 | Fixed |
| curl | c9f2 | 7.51.0-alt1 | 8.6.0-alt1 | ALT-PU-2016-2231-1 | 171758 | Fixed |
| curl | c7 | 7.56.1-alt1.M70C.1.1 | 7.56.1-alt1.M70C.1.1 | ALT-PU-2018-1442-1 | 202075 | Fixed |
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
Hyperlink | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102B.html |
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| https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8616.patch |
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| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8616 |
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| https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21 |
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| GLSA-201701-47 |
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| 1037192 |
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| 94094 |
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| RHSA-2018:2486 |
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| http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html |
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| RHSA-2018:3558 |
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