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openSUSE 15.4/15.5 Important: Curl DoS Fix for CVE-2023-38039

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2023
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Urgent patch released for curl that mitigates potential DoS risk due to oversized HTTP headers. Update promptly to bolster security on your openSUSE installations.
This update for curl fixes the following issues: CVE-2023-38039: Fixed possible DoS when receiving too large HTTP header

Description

This update for curl fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2023-38039: Fixed possible DoS when receiving too large HTTP header.

(bsc#1215026)

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2023-3823=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-3823=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-3823=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2023-3823=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2023-3823=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2023-3823=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2023-3823=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP4-2023-3823=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP5-2023-3823=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libcurl-devel-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* curl-debuginfo-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* curl-debugsource-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* libcurl4-debuginfo-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* curl-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* libcurl4-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)

* libcurl4-32bit-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* libcurl4-32bit-debuginfo-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* libcurl-devel-32bit-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64_ilp32)

* libcurl4-64bit-debuginfo-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* libcurl4-64bit-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* libcurl-devel-64bit-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* libcurl-devel-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* curl-debuginfo-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* curl-debugsource-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* libcurl4-debuginfo-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* curl-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* libcurl4-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (x86_64)

* libcurl4-32bit-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* libcurl4-32bit-debuginfo-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* libcurl-devel-32bit-8.0.1-150400.5.29.1

* SUSE Linux...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* #1215026

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38039.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215026

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:3823-1
Rating: important

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