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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2017-e8179c06fd Critical: curl Out Of Bounds Read

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Calendar Grey November 11, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Revise the memory access vulnerabilities in curl for Fedora users, addressing potentially severe security threats.
- fix out of bounds read in FTP PWD response parser (CVE-2017-1000254)

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 out of bounds read in FTP PWD response parser (CVE-2017-1000254)

[ 1 ] Bug #1498396 - CVE-2017-1000254 curl: FTP PWD response parser out of bounds read [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498396

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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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 7.55.1
Release: 6.fc27
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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