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Fedora 25 Curl Update 2017-b38b98727e Critical: Out Of Bounds Fix

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Calendar Grey April 9, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Address the out-of-bounds read error in curl's --write-out option on Fedora 25. Ensure you update now to incorporate security patches and improve overall system stability.
- fix out of bounds read in curl --write-out (CVE-2017-7407)

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 out of bounds read in curl --write-out (CVE-2017-7407)

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1439191 - CVE-2017-7407 curl: --write-out out of bounds read [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1439191

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 25
Version: 7.51.0
Release: 6.fc25
URL: https://curl.se/
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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