SB2014122313 - Fedora 21 update for mingw-curl
Published: December 23, 2014 Updated: April 24, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Cryptographic issues (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3620)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.
cURL and libcurl before 7.38.0 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and set cookies for arbitrary sites by setting a cookie for a top-level domain.
2) Cryptographic issues (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3613)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.
cURL and libcurl before 7.38.0 does not properly handle IP addresses in cookie domain names, which allows remote attackers to set cookies for or send arbitrary cookies to certain sites, as demonstrated by a site at 192.168.0.1 setting cookies for a site at 127.168.0.1.
3) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3707)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in the "curl_easy_duphandle" function. A remote attacker can trigger out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.