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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-b855de5c0f Moderate: Curl Sock5 Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 14, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent Curl update for Fedora 38 fixes critical vulnerabilities like cookie injection and heap overflow in SOCKS5. Keep your system secure with these updates
- fix cookie injection with none file (CVE-2023-38546) - fix SOCKS5 heap buffer overflow (CVE-2023-38545)

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 cookie injection with none file (CVE-2023-38546) - fix SOCKS5 heap buffer overflow (CVE-2023-38545)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow Fedora heap overflow curl cookie injection

Change Log

* Thu Oct 12 2023 Jan Macku - 8.0.1-5 - fix cookie injection with none file (CVE-2023-38546) - fix SOCKS5 heap buffer overflow (CVE-2023-38545)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2241933 - CVE-2023-38545 curl: a heap based buffer overflow in the SOCKS5 proxy handshake https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241933

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-b855de5c0f' 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 38
Version: 8.0.1
Release: 5.fc38
URL: https://curl.se/
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow Fedora heap overflow curl cookie injection

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