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Fedora: 24 curl Security Update - Resolving Critical Flaws

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Calendar Grey November 6, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Uncover vital security patches for curl in Fedora 24, focusing on significant vulnerabilities and essential corrections for improved defense.
- fix cookie injection for other servers (CVE-2016-8615) - compare user/passwd case-sensitively while reusing connections (CVE-2016-8616) - base64: check for integer overflow on la...

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:

- fix cookie injection for other servers (CVE-2016-8615) - compare user/passwd case-sensitively while reusing connections (CVE-2016-8616) - base64: check for integer overflow on large input (CVE-2016-8617) - fix double-free in krb5 code (CVE-2016-8619) - fix double-free in curl_maprintf() (CVE-2016-8618) - fix glob parser write/read out of bounds (CVE-2016-8620) - fix out-of-bounds read in curl_getdate() (CVE-2016-8621) - fix URL unescape heap overflow via integer truncation (CVE-2016-8622) - fix use-after-free via shared cookies (CVE-2016-8623) - urlparse: accept '#' as end of host name (CVE-2016-8624)

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Fedora memory corruption input validation curl cookie injection

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1390894 - CVE-2016-8615 CVE-2016-8616 CVE-2016-8617 CVE-2016-8618 CVE-2016-8619 CVE-2016-8620 CVE-2016-8621 CVE-2016-8622 CVE-2016-8623 CVE-2016-8624 curl: various flaws [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1390894

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade curl' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: curl
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 7.47.1
Release: 9.fc24
URL: https://curl.se/
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Fedora memory corruption input validation curl cookie injection

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