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Fedora 31: FEDORA-2020-55f1f7cb13 Critical: Curl Local File Safety

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Calendar Grey July 9, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 32 curl upgrade addresses local file replacement and DNS credential exposure concerns to improve security.
- avoid overwriting a local file with -J (CVE-2020-8177) - fix partial password leak over DNS on HTTP redirect (CVE-2020-8169)

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.

- avoid overwriting a local file with -J (CVE-2020-8177) - fix partial password

leak over DNS on HTTP redirect (CVE-2020-8169)

* Wed Jun 24 2020 Kamil Dudka - 7.66.0-2

- avoid overwriting a local file with -J (CVE-2020-8177)

- fix partial password leak over DNS on HTTP redirect (CVE-2020-8169)

[ 1 ] Bug #1847915 - CVE-2020-8177 curl: command line arguments lead to local file overwrite

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1847915

[ 2 ] Bug #1847916 - CVE-2020-8169 libcurl: partial password leak over DNS on HTTP redirect

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1847916

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-55f1f7cb13' 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: 2.fc31
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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