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TITLE:
cURL OpenSSL NULL Character Spoofing Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36238

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36238/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in cURL, which can be exploited by
malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing
certificate fields containing NULL ('\0') characters. This can be
exploited to e.g. conduct Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks via
specially crafted certificates.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 7.19.6.

Note: This only affects cURL versions with enabled OpenSSL support.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 7.19.6 or apply patches.
http://curl.haxx.se/download.html

Patches:
http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.19.5-CVE-2009-2417.patch
http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.19.0-CVE-2009-2417.patch
http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.18.1-CVE-2009-2417.patch
http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.16.4-CVE-2009-2417.patch
http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.15.5-CVE-2009-2417.patch
http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.15.1-CVE-2009-2417.patch
http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.12.1-CVE-2009-2417.patch
http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.11.0-CVE-2009-2417.patch
http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.10.6-CVE-2009-2417.patch

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Scott Cantor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20090812.txt

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