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Fedora 24: FEDORA-2016-86d2b5aefb Moderate: curl Buffer Overflow

fedora
Calendar Grey December 31, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addresses buffer overflow vulnerability in the curl toolset for Fedora 24. Strengthen system defenses with the applied patch.
- fix floating point buffer overflow issues (CVE-2016-9586)

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 floating point buffer overflow issues (CVE-2016-9586)

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1406716 - CVE-2016-9586 curl: printf floating point buffer overflow [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1406716

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

Name: curl
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 7.47.1
Release: 10.fc24
URL: https://curl.se/
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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Topics Covered

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