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openSUSE 42.3: 2018:3699-1 Moderate Curl Fixes for Two Issues

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important update for openSUSE addresses two security flaws in curl, delivering vital enhancements to safeguard system integrity.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for curl fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2018-16840: A use after free in closing SASL handles was fixed

(bsc#1112758)

- CVE-2018-16842: A Out-of-bounds Read in tool_msgs.c was fixed which

could lead to crashes (bsc#1113660)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update buffer overflow curl out-of-bounds 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 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1383=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

curl-7.37.0-42.1

curl-debuginfo-7.37.0-42.1

curl-debugsource-7.37.0-42.1

libcurl-devel-7.37.0-42.1

libcurl4-7.37.0-42.1

libcurl4-debuginfo-7.37.0-42.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

libcurl-devel-32bit-7.37.0-42.1

libcurl4-32bit-7.37.0-42.1

libcurl4-debuginfo-32bit-7.37.0-42.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16840.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16842.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1112758

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1113660

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3699-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update buffer overflow curl out-of-bounds openSUSE

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