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Fedora 37: 2023-98dff7aae5 Moderate: Curl Out Of Memory Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 37 users should update their curl packages to fix the memory leak vulnerability CVE-2023-38039, improving HTTP headers' security and stability
- fix HTTP headers eat all memory (CVE-2023-38039)

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 HTTP headers eat all memory (CVE-2023-38039)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora update notification memory issue curl

Change Log

* Wed Sep 13 2023 Jan Macku - 7.85.0-11 - fix HTTP headers eat all memory (CVE-2023-38039) - temporarily disable test 678 on aarch64 (it suddently started crashing without any change in curl)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2239136 - CVE-2023-38039 curl: out of heap memory issue due to missing limit on header quntity [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239136

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-98dff7aae5' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: curl
Product: Fedora 37
Version: 7.85.0
Release: 11.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 Fedora update notification memory issue curl

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