back to article Curl bashes 11 bugs

The popular file transfer library Curl has squashed 11 bugs. Detailed on the tool's security page, CVEs 2016-8615 through 2016-8625 do things like send the tool to the wrong host, or allow an attacker to "cause [a] connection to be reused if s/he knows the case-insensitive version of the correct password." Upgrading to Curl 7 …

  1. Christian Berger

    Didn't curl have the problem...

    ...that it was left without maintainer because nobody wanted to touch that code?

    1. fandom

      Re: Didn't curl have the problem...

      Nope.

      Not even close really.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I certainly got bugs fixed in libcurl when I reported them earlier this year.

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