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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2020:4599 Moderate: Curl Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
New critical curl patch available for CentOS, resolving local file masking vulnerability. Discover more details today!
An update for curl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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: Incorrect argument check can allow remote servers to overwrite local files (CVE-2020-8177)
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 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate bug fix security impact red hat enterprise linux curl

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8177 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: curl-7.61.1-14.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: curl-7.61.1-14.el8.aarch64.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.61.1-14.el8.aarch64.rpm curl-debugsource-7.61.1-14.el8.aarch64.rpm curl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-14.el8.aarch64.rpm libcurl-7.61.1-14.el8.aarch64.rpm libcurl-debuginfo-7.61.1-14.el8.aarch64.rpm libcurl-devel-7.61.1-14.el8.aarch64.rpm libcurl-minimal-7.61.1-14.el8.aarch64.rpm libcurl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-14.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: curl-7.61.1-14.el8.ppc64le.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.61.1-14.el8.ppc64le.rpm curl-debugsource-7.61.1-14.el8.ppc64le.rpm curl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-14.el8.ppc64le.rpm libcurl-7.61.1-14.el8.ppc64le.rpm libcurl-debuginfo-7.61.1-14.el8.ppc64le.rpm libcurl-devel-7.61.1-14.el8.ppc64le.rpm libcurl-minimal-7.61.1-14.el8.ppc64le.rpm libcurl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-14.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: curl-7.61.1-14.el8.s390x.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.61.1-14.el8.s390x.rpm curl-debugsource-7.61.1-14.el8.s390x.rpm curl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-14.el8.s390x.rpm libcurl-7.61.1-14.el8.s390x.rpm libcurl-debuginfo-7.61.1-14.el8.s390x.rpm libcurl-devel-7.61.1-14.el8.s390x.rpm libcurl-minimal-7.61.1-14.el8.s390x.rpm libcurl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-14.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: curl-7.61.1-14.el8.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4599-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4599
Issue date: 2020-11-03

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 impactof Moderate. 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 moderate bug fix security impact red hat enterprise linux curl

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1847915 - CVE-2020-8177 curl: Incorrect argument check can allow remote servers to overwrite local files

1854369 - curl cannot use the openssl engine like pkcs11

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