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Fedora 26: 2017-0c062324cd Moderate Curl Buffer Overflows

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Calendar Grey December 9, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Red Hat releases a patch addressing vulnerabilities in wget relating to command injection and HTTP request handling. Update using yum.
- fix NTLM buffer overflow via integer overflow (CVE-2017-8816) - fix FTP wildcard out of bounds read (CVE-2017-8817)

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.

- fix NTLM buffer overflow via integer overflow (CVE-2017-8816) - fix FTP

wildcard out of bounds read (CVE-2017-8817)

[ 1 ] Bug #1518621 - CVE-2017-8816 CVE-2017-8817 curl: various flaws [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1518621

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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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 7.53.1
Release: 13.fc26
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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