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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2023-43ef9f5376 Critical: Curl HTTP Memory Problem

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora 39 patch resolves a memory leak in curl related to HTTP headers, significantly improving overall system security.
- 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 Fedora system enhancement critical threat memory issue curl HTTP headers

Change Log

* Wed Sep 13 2023 Jan Macku - 8.2.1-2 - 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-2023-43ef9f5376' 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 39
Version: 8.2.1
Release: 2.fc39
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 system enhancement critical threat memory issue curl HTTP headers

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