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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2019-3701 Moderate: Curl Security Fix

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An update for curl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate

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: NTLM type-2 heap out-of-bounds buffer read (CVE-2018-16890)
* wget: Information exposure in set_file_metadata function in xattr.c (CVE-2018-20483)
* curl: NTLMv2 type-3 header stack buffer overflow (CVE-2019-3822)
* curl: SMTP end-of-response out-of-bounds read (CVE-2019-3823)
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 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity information exposure curl update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16890 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20483 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3822 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3823 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: curl-7.61.1-11.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: curl-7.61.1-11.el8.aarch64.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.61.1-11.el8.aarch64.rpm curl-debugsource-7.61.1-11.el8.aarch64.rpm curl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libcurl-7.61.1-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libcurl-debuginfo-7.61.1-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libcurl-devel-7.61.1-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libcurl-minimal-7.61.1-11.el8.aarch64.rpm libcurl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-11.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: curl-7.61.1-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.61.1-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm curl-debugsource-7.61.1-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm curl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm libcurl-7.61.1-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm libcurl-debuginfo-7.61.1-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm libcurl-devel-7.61.1-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm libcurl-minimal-7.61.1-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm libcurl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: curl-7.61.1-11.el8.s390x.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.61.1-11.el8.s390x.rpm curl-debugsource-7.61.1-11.el8.s390x.rpm curl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-11.el8.s390x.rpm libcurl-7.61.1-11.el8.s390x.rpm libcurl-debuginfo-7.61.1-11.el8.s390x.rpm libcurl-devel-7.61.1-11.el8.s390x.rpm libcurl-minimal-7.61.1-11.el8.s390x.rpm libcurl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-11.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64:

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3701-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3701
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

An update for curl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity information exposure curl update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1662705 - CVE-2018-20483 wget: Information exposure in set_file_metadata function in xattr.c

1669156 - connection re-use does not work for SCP and SFTP

1670252 - CVE-2018-16890 curl: NTLM type-2 heap out-of-bounds buffer read

1670254 - CVE-2019-3822 curl: NTLMv2 type-3 header stack buffer overflow

1670256 - CVE-2019-3823 curl: SMTP end-of-response out-of-bounds read

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