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Fedora 39: 2023-9de8973300 Critical: Curl HSTS and Cookie Fixes

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Calendar Grey December 10, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important Fedora Update Notice: addresses problems with curl's HSTS file and mixed-case cookie handling to improve overall security
- fix HSTS long file name clears contents (CVE-2023-46219) - fix cookie mixed case PSL bypass (CVE-2023-46218)

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 HSTS long file name clears contents (CVE-2023-46219) - fix cookie mixed case PSL bypass (CVE-2023-46218)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Fedora curl cookie bypass HSTS fix

Change Log

* Wed Dec 6 2023 Jan Macku - 8.2.1-4 - fix HSTS long file name clears contents (CVE-2023-46219) - fix cookie mixed case PSL bypass (CVE-2023-46218)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2252030 - CVE-2023-46218 curl: information disclosure by exploiting a mixed case flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2252030 [ 2 ] Bug #2252034 - CVE-2023-46219 curl: excessively long file name may lead to unknown HSTS status https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2252034

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-9de8973300' 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: 4.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 critical issue Fedora curl cookie bypass HSTS fix

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