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Fedora 21: FEDORA-2015-6728 critical: curl Memory Access Issues

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Calendar Grey May 2, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Enhancements to curl on Fedora 21 address significant memory management flaws and mitigate vulnerabilities related to Negotiate connections.
- require credentials to match for NTLM re-use (CVE-2015-3143) - fix invalid write with a zero-length host name in URL (CVE-2015-3144) - fix invalid write in cookie path sanitizati...

Summary

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting

FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, IMAP,

SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP

uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password

authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer

resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.

Update Information:

- require credentials to match for NTLM re-use (CVE-2015-3143) - fix invalid write with a zero-length host name in URL (CVE-2015-3144) - fix invalid write in cookie path sanitization code (CVE-2015-3145) - close Negotiate connections when done (CVE-2015-3148)

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora memory access curl Negotiate connection

Change Log

* Wed Apr 22 2015 Kamil Dudka 7.37.0-14 - require credentials to match for NTLM re-use (CVE-2015-3143) - fix invalid write with a zero-length host name in URL (CVE-2015-3144) - fix invalid write in cookie path sanitization code (CVE-2015-3145) - close Negotiate connections when done (CVE-2015-3148) * Mon Feb 23 2015 Kamil Dudka 7.37.0-13 - fix a spurious connect failure on dual-stacked hosts (#1187531) * Thu Jan 8 2015 Kamil Dudka 7.37.0-12 - reject CRLFs in URLs passed to proxy (CVE-2014-8150) * Wed Dec 10 2014 Kamil Dudka 7.37.0-11 - make CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT work again with threaded-resolver (#1172572) * Fri Nov 21 2014 Kamil Dudka 7.37.0-10 - disable libcurl-level downgrade to SSLv3 (#1166567) - low-speed-limit: avoid timeout flood (#1166239)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1213351 - CVE-2015-3148 curl: Negotiate not treated as connection-oriented https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213351 [ 2 ] Bug #1213306 - CVE-2015-3143 curl: re-using authenticated connection when unauthenticated https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213306 [ 3 ] Bug #1213335 - CVE-2015-3144 curl: host name out of boundary memory access https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213335 [ 4 ] Bug #1213347 - CVE-2015-3145 curl: cookie parser out of boundary memory access https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213347

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update curl' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: curl
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 7.37.0
Release: 14.fc21
URL: https://curl.se/
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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security advisory update critical Fedora memory access curl Negotiate connection

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