Fix curl/gnutls SSLv3 on Ubuntu 14.04

fix_sslv3.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Fix curl/gnutls SSLv3 on Ubuntu 14.04
#
# The curl version on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr has a bug (through gnutls) in
# its SSLv3 support. This also affects git.
#
# http://sourceforge.net/p/curl/bugs/1319/
#
# This downgrades curl to 7.32 (from Ubuntu 13.12), which does not have the
# bug. It also uninstalls the landscape-client and python-pycurl packages
# which depend on the original version of curl.

set -o nounset
set -o errexit
set -o pipefail

cd "$(mktemp -d)"

wget "http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curl/curl_7.32.0-1ubuntu1.4_amd64.deb"
wget "http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl3_7.32.0-1ubuntu1.4_amd64.deb"
wget "http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls_7.32.0-1ubuntu1.4_amd64.deb"

sudo apt-get remove -y landscape-client python-pycurl
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Thank you for this

Keep in mind that this is just a quick fix and you are missing out on any security updates for curl that might have been uploaded since curl 7.32.