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Fedora 22: Urgent Patch 2015-7843 Addressing Curl Vulnerabilities in System

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Calendar Grey April 26, 2015
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Important patch for curl in Fedora 22 addressing various vulnerabilities such as NTLM token re-utilization and memory access errors.
- 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 network security Fedora critical update memory access curl NTLM

Change Log

References


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

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 22
Version: 7.40.0
Release: 3.fc22
URL: https://curl.se/
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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