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Fedora 37: FEDORA-2023-189272bcce Critical: curl fopen Race Condition

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Calendar Grey August 1, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Follow these steps to address the fopen race condition in cURL on Fedora 37 and enhance your system security and functionality with effective measures
- fix fopen race condition (CVE-2023-32001)

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.

Update Information:

- fix fopen race condition (CVE-2023-32001)

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora race condition curl fopen

Change Log

* Thu Jul 20 2023 Jan Macku - 7.85.0-10 - fix fopen race condition (CVE-2023-32001)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2223893 - CVE-2023-32001 curl: fopen race condition [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2223893

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-189272bcce' 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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Name: curl
Product: Fedora 37
Version: 7.85.0
Release: 10.fc37
URL: https://curl.se/
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora race condition curl fopen

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