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Ubuntu 22.04: UBUNTU-2023-d278084fd5 Urgent: SSL Protocol Flaw

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Calendar Grey September 16, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 38's curl update tackles memory problems stemming from overly large HTTP headers. Crucial for maintaining overall system integrity.
- 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)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Fedora memory overflow curl HTTP headers

Change Log

* Wed Sep 13 2023 Jan Macku - 8.0.1-4 - fix HTTP headers eat all memory (CVE-2023-38039)

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-b1253907f1' 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 38
Version: 8.0.1
Release: 4.fc38
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 critical software update Fedora memory overflow curl HTTP headers

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