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Fedora 22: 2016-3fa315a5dd Critical: Curl Proxy Credential Issue

- match credentials when re-using a proxy connection (CVE-2016-0755). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-3fa315a5dd 2016-02-01 20:30:53.299449 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : curl Product : Fedora 22 Version : 7.40.0 Release : 8.fc22 URL : https://curl.se/ Summary : A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others) Description : curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, IMAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: - match credentials when re-using a proxy connection (CVE-2016-0755) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1302263 - CVE-2016-0755 curl: NTLM credentials not-checked for proxy connection re-use https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302263 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update curl' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailinglist This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/package-announce.lists.fedoraproject.org/ . The latest Fedora 22 update rectifies a vulnerability in curl related to the management of credentials when connecting through a proxy, identified as CVE-2016-0755.. curl Update, Credential Risk, Proxy Security, Fedora 22, Security Flaw. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Feb 02, 2016 Fedora