curl: authentication bypass
| Package(s): | curl | CVE #(s): | CVE-2016-0755 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created: | January 27, 2016 | Updated: | February 17, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | From the Debian advisory:
Isaac Boukris discovered that cURL, an URL transfer library, reused NTLM-authenticated proxy connections without properly making sure that the connection was authenticated with the same credentials as set for the new transfer. This could lead to HTTP requests being sent over the connection authenticated as a different user. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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