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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2019-2181-01 Low: curl Security Fix

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has announced a minor yet significant update for curl that resolves a critical buffer over-read vulnerability. Discover the details of the resolution.
An update for curl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The curl packages provide the libcurl library and the curl utility for downloading files from servers using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP.
Security Fix(es):
* curl: Heap-based buffer over-read in the curl tool warning formatting (CVE-2018-16842)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix low severity red hat enterprise linux curl update buffer over-read curl security

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16842 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: curl-7.29.0-54.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: curl-7.29.0-54.el7.x86_64.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.29.0-54.el7.i686.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.29.0-54.el7.x86_64.rpm libcurl-7.29.0-54.el7.i686.rpm libcurl-7.29.0-54.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: curl-debuginfo-7.29.0-54.el7.i686.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.29.0-54.el7.x86_64.rpm libcurl-devel-7.29.0-54.el7.i686.rpm libcurl-devel-7.29.0-54.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: curl-7.29.0-54.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: curl-7.29.0-54.el7.x86_64.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.29.0-54.el7.i686.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.29.0-54.el7.x86_64.rpm libcurl-7.29.0-54.el7.i686.rpm libcurl-7.29.0-54.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: curl-debuginfo-7.29.0-54.el7.i686.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.29.0-54.el7.x86_64.rpm libcurl-devel-7.29.0-54.el7.i686.rpm libcurl-devel-7.29.0-54.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: curl-7.29.0-54.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: curl-7.29.0-54.el7.ppc64.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.29.0-54.el7.ppc.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.29.0-54.el7.ppc64.rpm libcurl-7.29.0-54.el7.ppc.rpm libcurl-7.29.0-54.el7.ppc64.rpm libcurl-devel-7.29.0-54.el7.ppc.rpm libcurl-devel-7.29.0-54.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le:

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Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2181-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2181
Issue date: 2019-08-06

Topic

An update for curl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix low severity red hat enterprise linux curl update buffer over-read curl security

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1281969 - baseurl with file:// hangs and then timeout in yum repo

1644124 - CVE-2018-16842 curl: Heap-based buffer over-read in the curl tool warning formatting

1683292 - curl crashes on http links with rate-limit

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