Mageia alert MGASA-2013-0338 (curl)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2013-0338: Updated curl packages fix CVE-2013-4545 
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Wed, 20 Nov 2013 21:56:44 +0100
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MGASA-2013-0338 - Updated curl packages fix CVE-2013-4545

Publication date: 20 Nov 2013
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0338.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 2, 3
CVE: CVE-2013-4545

Description:
Updated curl packages fix security vulnerability:

Scott Cantor discovered that curl, a file retrieval tool, would disable the
CURLOPT_SSLVERIFYHOST check when the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER setting was
disabled. This would also disable ssl certificate host name checks when it
should have only disabled verification of the certificate trust chain
(CVE-2013-4545).

References:
- http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20131115.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2798
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11703
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4545

SRPMS:
- 3/core/curl-7.28.1-6.2.mga3
- 2/core/curl-7.24.0-1.3.mga2