Fedora 39: curl 2023-43ef9f5376
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)
Change Log
* Wed Sep 13 2023 Jan Macku
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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