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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2019-f2a520135e Critical: Curl Double Free Fix

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Calendar Grey September 28, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Urgent notice for Fedora 29: curl addresses severe double free and buffer overflow issues. Immediate update is highly advised.
- double free due to subsequent call of realloc() (CVE-2019-5481) - fix heap buffer overflow in function tftp_receive_packet() (CVE-2019-5482)

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.

- double free due to subsequent call of realloc() (CVE-2019-5481) - fix heap

buffer overflow in function tftp_receive_packet() (CVE-2019-5482)

* Wed Sep 11 2019 Kamil Dudka - 7.61.1-12

- double free due to subsequent call of realloc() (CVE-2019-5481)

- fix heap buffer overflow in function tftp_receive_packet() (CVE-2019-5482)

* Wed May 22 2019 Kamil Dudka - 7.61.1-11

- fix TFTP receive buffer overflow (CVE-2019-5436)

- fix integer overflows in curl_url_set() (CVE-2019-5435)

* Mon Feb 18 2019 Kamil Dudka - 7.61.1-10

- do not let libssh create a new socket for SCP/SFTP (#1669156)

* Mon Feb 11 2019 Kamil Dudka - 7.61.1-9

- make zsh completion work again

* Wed Feb 6 2019 Kamil Dudka - 7.61.1-8

- fix SMTP end-of-response out-of-bounds read (CVE-2019-3823)

- fix NTLMv2 type-3 header stack buffer overflow (CVE-2019-3822)

- fix NTLM type-2 out-of-bounds buffer read (CVE-2018-16890)

* Mon Jan 21 2019 Kamil Dudka - 7.61.1-7

- xattr: strip credentials from any URL that is stored (CVE-2018-20483)

* Wed Dec 19 2018 Kamil Dudka - 7.61.1-6

- curl -J: do not append to the destination file (#1658574)

* Thu Nov 15 2018 Kamil Dudka - 7.61.1-5

- make the patch for CVE-2018-16842 apply properly (CVE-2018-16842)

* Thu Nov 1 2018 Kamil Dudka - 7.61.1-4

- SASL password overflow via integer overflow (CVE-2018-16839)

- fix use-after-free in handle close (CVE-2018-16840)

- fix bad arethmetic when outputting warnings to stderr (CVE-2018-16842)

* Thu Oct 11 2018 Kamil Dudka - 7.61.1-3

- enable TLS 1.3 post-handshake auth in OpenSSL

- update the documentation of --tlsv1.0 in curl(1) man page

[ 1 ] Bug #1751926 - CVE-2019-5482 curl: heap buffer overflow in function tftp_receive_packet() [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1751926

[ 2 ] Bug #1751921 - CVE-2019-5481 curl: double free due to subsequent call of realloc() [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1751921

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-f2a520135e' 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 29
Version: 7.61.1
Release: 12.fc29
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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