USN-8932-1: curl vulnerabilities

Stanislav Fort discovered that curl did not properly clear AWS SigV4 authentication state when CURLOPT_AWS_SIGV4 was set to NULL. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-86409) Stanislav Fort discovered that an HTTP proxy could trick libcurl into sending credentials to the proxy itself by responding to a CONNECT request with an unexpected authentication challenge. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive…

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