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A curl security update has been released for Fedora 31.



SECURITY: Fedora 31 Update: curl-7.66.0-2.fc31


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-55f1f7cb13
2020-07-10 01:00:39.961680
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Name : curl
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 7.66.0
Release : 2.fc31
URL :   https://curl.haxx.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:

- avoid overwriting a local file with -J (CVE-2020-8177) - fix partial password
leak over DNS on HTTP redirect (CVE-2020-8169)
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jun 24 2020 Kamil Dudka - 7.66.0-2
- avoid overwriting a local file with -J (CVE-2020-8177)
- fix partial password leak over DNS on HTTP redirect (CVE-2020-8169)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1847915 - CVE-2020-8177 curl: command line arguments lead to local file overwrite
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1847915
[ 2 ] Bug #1847916 - CVE-2020-8169 libcurl: partial password leak over DNS on HTTP redirect
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1847916
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-55f1f7cb13' 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

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