ALAS-2025-2724


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2025-2724
Advisory Release Date: 2025-01-04 00:04 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-01-09 15:39 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

When curl is asked to use HSTS, the expiry time for a subdomain might
overwrite a parent domain's cache entry, making it end sooner or later than
otherwise intended.

This affects curl using applications that enable HSTS and use URLs with the
insecure `HTTP://` scheme and perform transfers with hosts like
`x.example.com` as well as `example.com` where the first host is a subdomain
of the second host.

(The HSTS cache either needs to have been populated manually or there needs to
have been previous HTTPS accesses done as the cache needs to have entries for
the domains involved to trigger this problem.)

When `x.example.com` responds with `Strict-Transport-Security:` headers, this
bug can make the subdomain's expiry timeout *bleed over* and get set for the
parent domain `example.com` in curl's HSTS cache.

The result of a triggered bug is that HTTP accesses to `example.com` get
converted to HTTPS for a different period of time than what was asked for by
the origin server. If `example.com` for example stops supporting HTTPS at its
expiry time, curl might then fail to access `http://example.com` until the
(wrongly set) timeout expires. This bug can also expire the parent's entry
*earlier*, thus making curl inadvertently switch back to insecure HTTP earlier
than otherwise intended. (CVE-2024-9681)


Affected Packages:

curl


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update curl to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    curl-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
    libcurl-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
    libcurl-devel-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
    curl-debuginfo-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.8.aarch64

i686:
    curl-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.8.i686
    libcurl-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.8.i686
    libcurl-devel-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.8.i686
    curl-debuginfo-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.8.i686

src:
    curl-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.8.src

x86_64:
    curl-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.8.x86_64
    libcurl-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.8.x86_64
    libcurl-devel-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.8.x86_64
    curl-debuginfo-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.8.x86_64