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A curl security update has been released for Fedora 37.



[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: curl-7.85.0-12.fc37


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-fef2b8da32
2023-10-28 01:25:02.281566
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Name : curl
Product : Fedora 37
Version : 7.85.0
Release : 12.fc37
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 cookie injection with none file (CVE-2023-38546) - fix SOCKS5 heap buffer
overflow (CVE-2023-38545)
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Oct 12 2023 Jan Macku [jamacku@redhat.com] - 7.85.0-12
- fix cookie injection with none file (CVE-2023-38546)
- fix SOCKS5 heap buffer overflow (CVE-2023-38545)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2241933 - CVE-2023-38545 curl: heap based buffer overflow in the SOCKS5 proxy handshake
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241933
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-fef2b8da32' 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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