Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5964-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 5964-1 - Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain TELNET connection options. Due to lack of proper input scrubbing, curl could pass on user name and telnet options to the server as provided, contrary to expectations. Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled special tilde characters when used with SFTP paths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to circumvent filtering.

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