-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-11457 2009-11-13 01:54:17 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : curl Product : Fedora 10 Version : 7.19.6 Release : 2.fc10 URL : http://curl.haxx.se/ Summary : A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others) Description : cURL is a tool for getting files from HTTP, FTP, FILE, LDAP, LDAPS, DICT, TELNET and TFTP servers, using any of the supported protocols. cURL is designed to work without user interaction or any kind of interactivity. cURL offers many useful capabilities, like proxy support, user authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, and file transfer resume.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Kevin Baughman provided a fix preventing libcurl-NSS from crash on doubly closed NSPR descriptor. The bug was hard to find, reported several times before and always closed unresolved. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Thu Nov 12 2009 Kamil Dudka kdudka@redhat.com 7.19.6-2 - fix crash on doubly closed NSPR descriptor, patch contributed by Kevin Baughman (#534176) * Fri Aug 14 2009 Kamil Dudka kdudka@redhat.com 7.19.6-1 - new upstream release, dropped applied patches - changed NSS code to not ignore the value of ssl.verifyhost and produce more verbose error messages (#516056) * Wed Jun 10 2009 Kamil Dudka kdudka@redhat.com 7.19.4-6 - avoid unguarded comparison in the spec file, thanks to R P Herrold (#504857) * Mon May 11 2009 Kamil Dudka kdudka@redhat.com 7.19.4-5 - fix infinite loop while loading a private key, thanks to Michael Cronenworth (#453612) * Mon Apr 27 2009 Kamil Dudka kdudka@redhat.com 7.19.4-4 - fix configure.ac to not discard -g in CFLAGS, thanks to Debarshi Ray (#496778) * Mon Mar 16 2009 Kamil Dudka kdudka@redhat.com 7.19.4-3 - make libcurl-devel multilib-ready (bug #488922) * Fri Mar 6 2009 Jindrich Novy jnovy@redhat.com 7.19.4-2 - drop .easy-leak patch, causes problems in pycurl (#488791) - fix libcurl-devel dependencies (#488895) * Tue Mar 3 2009 Jindrich Novy jnovy@redhat.com 7.19.4-1 - update to 7.19.4 (fixes CVE-2009-0037) - fix leak in curl_easy* functions, thanks to Kamil Dudka - drop nss-proxy, sslgen, nss-init patches - update badsocket patch * Mon Dec 15 2008 Jindrich Novy jnovy@redhat.com 7.18.2-9 - release++ because of tag conflict caused by f10/rawhide branch split * Sun Dec 14 2008 Jindrich Novy jnovy@redhat.com 7.18.2-8 - use improved NSS patch, thanks to Rob Crittenden (#472489) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #534176 - SIGSEGV within ssl_DefRecv() in multi-threaded libcurl based application https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534176 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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