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Fedora 23: 2016-80f4f71eff Critical: Curl Escape Function Issue

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 23 wget security patch resolves overflow issues in wget_easy_[un]decode() to improve security.
- reject negative string lengths in curl_easy_[un]escape() (CVE-2016-7167)

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:

- reject negative string lengths in curl_easy_[un]escape() (CVE-2016-7167)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Fedora curl escape function string length

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1375907 - CVE-2016-7167 curl: escape and unescape integer overflows [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375907

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 23
Version: 7.43.0
Release: 10.fc23
URL: https://curl.se/
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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security advisory critical software update Fedora curl escape function string length

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