Scientific Linux: CVE-2010-0734 Moderate: curl Buffer Overflow Risk

Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:12:17 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: curl on SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: curl security update
Issue date:	2010-03-30
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-0734

Wesley Miaw discovered that when deflate compression was used, libcurl
could call the registered write callback function with data exceeding
the documented limit. A malicious server could use this flaw to crash an
application using libcurl or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. Note:
This issue only affected applications using libcurl that rely on the
documented data size limit, and that copy the data to the insufficiently
sized buffer. (CVE-2010-0734)

All running applications using libcurl must be restarted for the update
to take effect.

Note: This package for SL4 has to be renamed due to previous poor naming
of rpms.

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
curl-7.12.1-11.2.el4_8.3.src.rpm
 i386:
curl-7.12.1-11.2.el4_8.3.i386.rpm
curl-devel-7.12.1-11.2.el4_8.3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
curl-7.12.1-11.2.el4_8.3.i386.rpm
curl-7.12.1-11.2.el4_8.3.x86_64.rpm
curl-devel-7.12.1-11.2.el4_8.3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson