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Fedora 31: curl 2020-126a0dd319 Critical: Pointer Dereference Threat

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Calendar Grey September 3, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Latest curl patch for Fedora addresses outdated pointer access vulnerability. Update promptly to safeguard against possible exploits.
- fix expired pointer dereference via multi API with `CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY` option set (CVE-2020-8231)

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 expired pointer dereference via multi API with `CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY`

option set (CVE-2020-8231)

* Wed Aug 19 2020 Kamil Dudka - 7.66.0-3

- libcurl: wrong connect-only connection (CVE-2020-8231)

[ 1 ] Bug #1868032 - CVE-2020-8231 curl: Expired pointer dereference via multi API with `CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY` option set

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868032

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-126a0dd319' 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 31
Version: 7.66.0
Release: 3.fc31
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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