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openSUSE Leap 15.0: 2018-1624-1 Moderate: curl Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey June 9, 2018
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An update to openSUSE addresses significant vulnerabilities in curl, providing essential patches for buffer overflow and memory over-read flaws.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for curl to version 7.60.0 fixes the following issues:

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2018-1000300: Prevent heap-based buffer overflow when closing down

an FTP connection with very long server command replies (bsc#1092094).

- CVE-2018-1000301: Prevent buffer over-read that could have cause reading

data beyond the end of a heap based buffer used to store downloaded RTSP

content (bsc#1092098).

These non-security issues were fixed:

- Add CURLOPT_HAPROXYPROTOCOL, support for the HAProxy PROXY protocol

- Add --haproxy-protocol for the command line tool

- Add CURLOPT_DNS_SHUFFLE_ADDRESSES, shuffle returned IP addresses

- FTP: fix typo in recursive callback detection for seeking

- test1208: marked flaky

- HTTP: make header-less responses still count correct body size

- user-agent.d:: mention --proxy-header as well

- http2: fixes typo

- cleanup: misc typos in strings and comments

- rate-limit: use three...

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security advisory buffer overflow software update moderate severity curl openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-589=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):

curl-7.60.0-lp150.2.3.1

curl-debuginfo-7.60.0-lp150.2.3.1

curl-debugsource-7.60.0-lp150.2.3.1

curl-mini-7.60.0-lp150.2.3.1

curl-mini-debuginfo-7.60.0-lp150.2.3.1

curl-mini-debugsource-7.60.0-lp150.2.3.1

libcurl-devel-7.60.0-lp150.2.3.1

libcurl-mini-devel-7.60.0-lp150.2.3.1

libcurl4-7.60.0-lp150.2.3.1

libcurl4-debuginfo-7.60.0-lp150.2.3.1

libcurl4-mini-7.60.0-lp150.2.3.1

libcurl4-mini-debuginfo-7.60.0-lp150.2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

libcurl-devel-32bit-7.60.0-lp150.2.3.1

libcurl4-32bit-7.60.0-lp150.2.3.1

libcurl4-32bit-debuginfo-7.60.0-lp150.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000300.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000301.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1092094

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1092098

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1624-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow software update moderate severity curl openSUSE

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