CVE-2024-2379

Publication date 27 March 2024

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

libcurl skips the certificate verification for a QUIC connection under certain conditions, when built to use wolfSSL. If told to use an unknown/bad cipher or curve, the error path accidentally skips the verification and returns OK, thus ignoring any certificate problems.

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Upstream developers consider this a low severity issue

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
curl 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes


mdeslaur

Ubuntu package does not use the wolfSSL backend. Only affects 8.6.0.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
curl