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CVE-2010-3842

Publication date 28 October 2010

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in curl 7.20.0 through 7.21.1, when the --remote-header-name or -J option is used, allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files by using \ (backslash) as a separator of path components within the Content-disposition HTTP header.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
curl 10.10 maverick Ignored
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored
9.10 karmic Ignored
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored

Notes

jdstrand

from curl advisory: Operating systems affected include Windows, Netware, MSDOS, OS/2 and Symbian.