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Fedora 29: 2018-11472 High: mingw-libxml2 XML Parsing Vulnerability

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Fedora 22 has rolled out a crucial update for MinGW cURL, addressing multiple security vulnerabilities disclosed in April 2015 to strengthen software security
Update to 7.42.0 which fixes various CVE's

Summary

cURL is a tool for getting files from HTTP, FTP, FILE, LDAP, LDAPS,

DICT, TELNET and TFTP servers, using any of the supported protocols.

cURL is designed to work without user interaction or any kind of

interactivity. cURL offers many useful capabilities, like proxy

support, user authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, and file transfer

resume.

This is the MinGW cross-compiled Windows library.

Update Information:

Update to 7.42.0 which fixes various CVE's

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora software update url injection mingw-curl

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1180063 - CVE-2014-8150 mingw-curl: curl: URL request injection vulnerability in parseurlandfillconn() [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180063 [ 2 ] Bug #1214795 - CVE-2015-3143 CVE-2015-3148 CVE-2015-3145 CVE-2015-3144 mingw-curl: various flaws [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214795

Update Instructions

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

Name: mingw-curl
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 7.42.0
Release: 1.fc22
URL: https://curl.se/
Summary: MinGW Windows port of curl and libcurl

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora software update url injection mingw-curl

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