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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-7a2ed52d41
2016-09-15 18:35:40.434680
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Name : curl
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 7.47.1
Release : 8.fc24
URL :
http://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:
- reject negative string lengths in curl_easy_[un]escape() (CVE-2016-7167)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1375907 - CVE-2016-7167 curl: escape and unescape integer overflows
[fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375907
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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
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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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