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Fedora 27: 2017-45bdf4dace Critical: Curl Buffer Overflow Fixes

fedora
Calendar Grey December 10, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora curl patch enhances security by tackling NTLM buffer overflow vulnerabilities and resolving FTP read concerns, ensuring critical updates for users.
- 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/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 7.55.1
Release: 8.fc27
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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