CVE-2020-8169

NameCVE-2020-8169
Descriptioncurl 7.62.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability that can lead to a partial password being leaked over the network and to the DNS server(s).
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-4881-1
Debian Bugs965280

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
curl (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)7.38.0-4+deb8u28fixed
stretch (security)7.52.1-5+deb9u16fixed
stretch (lts), stretch7.52.1-5+deb9u22fixed
buster, buster (lts)7.64.0-4+deb10u10fixed
buster (security)7.64.0-4+deb10u9fixed
bullseye7.74.0-1.3+deb11u13fixed
bullseye (security)7.74.0-1.3+deb11u14fixed
bookworm7.88.1-10+deb12u8fixed
bookworm (security)7.88.1-10+deb12u5fixed
sid, trixie8.11.1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
curlsourcejessie(not affected)
curlsourcestretch(not affected)
curlsourcebuster7.64.0-4+deb10u2DSA-4881-1
curlsource(unstable)7.72.0-1965280

Notes

[stretch] - curl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[jessie] - curl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2020-8169.html
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/600a8cded447cd7118ed50142c576567c0cf5158 (7.71.0)

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