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Fedora 41 curl Important Out of Bounds Read Fix CVE-2025-9086

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Calendar Grey September 23, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch available for serious out of bounds read vulnerability in curl affecting Fedora 41 users, identified as CVE-2025-9086. Timely update is advised.
fix Out of bounds read for cookie path (CVE-2025-9086)

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 Out of bounds read for cookie path (CVE-2025-9086)

Change Log

* Wed Sep 17 2025 Jan Macku - 8.9.1-4 - fix Out of bounds read for cookie path (CVE-2025-9086)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2394882 - CVE-2025-9086 curl: Curl out of bounds read for cookie path [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2394882

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-4daec13254' 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 41
Version: 8.9.1
Release: 4.fc41
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)

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