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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2023:1140-01 Moderate: curl DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat announced a significant security patch for wget, tackling a critical vulnerability related to FTP header inconsistencies.
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: HTTP multi-header compression denial of service (CVE-2023-23916)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity DoS threat curl

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-23916 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: curl-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.src.rpm
aarch64: curl-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.aarch64.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.aarch64.rpm curl-debugsource-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.aarch64.rpm curl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.aarch64.rpm libcurl-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.aarch64.rpm libcurl-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.aarch64.rpm libcurl-devel-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.aarch64.rpm libcurl-minimal-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.aarch64.rpm libcurl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: curl-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.ppc64le.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.ppc64le.rpm curl-debugsource-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.ppc64le.rpm curl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.ppc64le.rpm libcurl-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.ppc64le.rpm libcurl-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.ppc64le.rpm libcurl-devel-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.ppc64le.rpm libcurl-minimal-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.ppc64le.rpm libcurl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: curl-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.s390x.rpm curl-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.s390x.rpm curl-debugsource-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.s390x.rpm curl-minimal-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.s390x.rpm libcurl-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.s390x.rpm libcurl-debuginfo-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.s390x.rpm libcurl-devel-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.s390x.rpm libcurl-minimal-7.61.1-25.el8_7.3.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1140-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1140
Issue date: 2023-03-07

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity DoS threat curl

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2167815 - CVE-2023-23916 curl: HTTP multi-header compression denial of service

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