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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2019-427a0ba9e3 Critical: Curl Credentials Exposure

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Calendar Grey January 24, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A crucial security patch for Fedora 29 targets vulnerabilities that allow credential leakage in Curl, ensuring robust protection.
- xattr: strip credentials from any URL that is stored (CVE-2018-20483)

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.

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

* 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 #1662852 - CVE-2018-20483 curl: wget: Information exposure in set_file_metadata function in xattr.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1662852

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-427a0ba9e3' 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: 7.fc29
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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