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Fedora 33: FEDORA-2020-8bd1aa7647 Important: wget Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey June 26, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora has released an important update for Curl, tackling serious concerns related to possible local file overwrites and the risk of partial password exposure. Discover more details here!
- 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 - 7.69.1-4

- 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-2020-6af1dd2936' 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 32
Version: 7.69.1
Release: 4.fc32
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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