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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2023-1a2b34567f3 Moderate: Curl Memory Leak Resolution

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Calendar Grey October 16, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 39 refresh for wget tackles memory leak and session fixation vulnerabilities. Utilize the dnf tool for a safe installation.
- 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 security issue buffer overflow Fedora moderate severity curl cookie injection

Change Log

* Wed Oct 11 2023 Jan Macku - 8.2.1-3 - 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-2023-0f8d1871d8' 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 39
Version: 8.2.1
Release: 3.fc39
URL: https://curl.se/
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow Fedora moderate severity curl cookie injection

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