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Fedora 23: Security Update for mingw-curl CVE-2016-0755 DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest mingw-curl update in Fedora 23 addresses various security issues, significantly improving the overall security posture of the system.
Update to 7.47.0 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 7.47.0 which fixes various CVE's

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora DoS threat mingw-curl

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1302264 - CVE-2016-0755 mingw-curl: curl: NTLM credentials not-checked for proxy connection re-use [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302264

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 .

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Name: mingw-curl
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 7.47.0
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://curl.se/
Summary: MinGW Windows port of curl and libcurl

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora DoS threat mingw-curl

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