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Fedora Core 3: 2005-325 Critical: Curl Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey April 20, 2005
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest patch for Fedora Core 3 enhances Curl's security by addressing significant buffer overflow vulnerabilities, guaranteeing safer file transfers for its users.
New curl version fixes CAN-2005-0490 problem (Multiple stack based overflows).

Summary

cURL is a tool for getting files from FTP, HTTP, Gopher, Telnet, and

Dict servers, using any of the supported protocols. cURL is designed

to work without user interaction or any kind of interactivity. cURL

offers many useful capabilities, like proxy support, user

authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, and file transfer resume.

New curl version fixes CAN-2005-0490 problem (Multiple stack based overflows).

- fix bug 149323 CAN-2005-0490 Multiple stack based buffer overflows

in curl (patch2)

371b99f279d4b31957fb12e40296231a SRPMS/curl-7.12.3-3.fc3.src.rpm

2a979aa60eb3d949c3b5a6ea95f0478a x86_64/curl-7.12.3-3.fc3.x86_64.rpm

4af84552e871b2ee272caf938a06e23f x86_64/curl-devel-7.12.3-3.fc3.x86_64.rpm

19557c726ee2701bfb3f7b64eb9e1323 x86_64/debug/curl-debuginfo-7.12.3-3.fc3.x86_64.rpm

b1783dbdb3b9b6c49be3288235f032ec x86_64/curl-7.12.3-3.fc3.i386.rpm

b1783dbdb3b9b6c49be3288235f032ec i386/curl-7.12.3-3.fc3.i386.rpm

a5f4297cc9984e6f90294c4f28100882 i386/curl-devel-7.12.3-3.fc3.i386.rpm

d8544a6fd0dc1e8a56a387c50e3ab396 i386/debug/curl-debuginfo-7.12.3-3.fc3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

fedora-announce-list@redhat.com

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Name: curl
Version: 7.12.3
Release: 3.fc3
Summary: A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others).

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