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A curl security update has been released for Fedora Linux:

[SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: curl-8.6.0-9.fc40




[SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: curl-8.6.0-9.fc40


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2024-a7976ba89f
2024-07-30 01:31:57.234432
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Name : curl
Product : Fedora 40
Version : 8.6.0
Release : 9.fc40
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.

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Update Information:

fix freeing stack buffer in utf8asn1str (CVE-2024-6197)
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jul 25 2024 Jan Macku [jamacku@redhat.com] - 8.6.0-9
- fix freeing stack buffer in utf8asn1str (CVE-2024-6197)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2299802 - CVE-2024-6197 curl: freeing stack buffer in utf8asn1str [fedora-40]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2299802
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-a7976ba89f' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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/keys
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