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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2024-6dab59bd47 Critical: Curl Memory Leak Issue

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Calendar Grey April 25, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Key improvements for curl in Fedora 39 targeting serious security vulnerabilities, such as memory issues and inactive protocols.
fix Usage of disabled protocol (CVE-2024-2004) fix HTTP/2 push headers memory-leak (CVE-2024-2398)

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 Usage of disabled protocol (CVE-2024-2004) fix HTTP/2 push headers memory-leak (CVE-2024-2398)

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora memory leak curl protocol issue

Change Log

* Wed Apr 3 2024 Jan Macku - 8.2.1-5 - fix Usage of disabled protocol (CVE-2024-2004) - fix HTTP/2 push headers memory-leak (CVE-2024-2398)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2270498 - CVE-2024-2398 curl: HTTP/2 push headers memory-leak https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270498 [ 2 ] Bug #2270500 - CVE-2024-2004 curl: Usage of disabled protocol https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270500

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-6dab59bd47' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: curl
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 8.2.1
Release: 5.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 update critical Fedora memory leak curl protocol issue

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