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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-edbb33ab2e
2016-12-27 15:10:28.239634
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Name        : curl
Product     : Fedora 25
Version     : 7.51.0
Release     : 4.fc25
URL         : https://curl.se/
Summary     : A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

- fix floating point buffer overflow issues (CVE-2016-9586)
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References:

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 25: curl Security Update 2016-edbb33ab2e

December 27, 2016
- 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)

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

Severity
Name : curl
Product : Fedora 25
Version : 7.51.0
Release : 4.fc25
URL : https://curl.se/
Summary : A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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