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Fedora 26 Moderate: Curl HTTP2 Buffer Fix for Authorization Leak

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Calendar Grey January 30, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important Fedora curl patch addresses buffer overflow vulnerabilities and mitigates authorization exposure during redirects for improved safety.
- http2: fix incorrect trailer buffer size (CVE-2018-1000005) - http: prevent custom Authorization headers in redirects (CVE-2018-1000007)

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.

- http2: fix incorrect trailer buffer size (CVE-2018-1000005) - http: prevent

custom Authorization headers in redirects (CVE-2018-1000007)

[ 1 ] Bug #1537968 - CVE-2018-1000007 curl: HTTP authentication leak in redirects [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1537968

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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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 7.53.1
Release: 14.fc26
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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