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Fedora 31: curl FEDORA-2019-6d7f6fa2c8 Critical: Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey September 20, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Significant patch released for curl in Fedora 31 to fix double allocation and memory overflow issues, boosting security and dependability.
- double free due to subsequent call of realloc() (CVE-2019-5481) - fix heap buffer overflow in function tftp_receive_packet() (CVE-2019-5482) ---- - avoid reporting spurious error...

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) ---- - avoid

reporting spurious error in the HTTP2 framing layer (#1690971)

[ 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

[ 3 ] Bug #1751055 - curl-7.66.0 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1751055

[ 4 ] Bug #1690971 - Curl error (16): Error in the HTTP2 framing layer against fedora servers

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1690971

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-6d7f6fa2c8' 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: 1.fc31
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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