SB2012020208 - SQL injection in curl (Alpine package)
Published: February 2, 2012
Security Bulletin ID
SB2012020208
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) SQL injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0036)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
curl and libcurl 7.2x before 7.24.0 do not properly consider special characters during extraction of a pathname from a URL, which allows remote attackers to conduct data-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a CRLF injection attack on the (1) IMAP, (2) POP3, or (3) SMTP protocol.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.