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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-16252
2012-10-17 00:01:42
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Name : curl
Product : Fedora 16
Version : 7.21.7
Release : 8.fc16
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:
- use NSS_InitContext() to initialize NSS if available (#767832)
- provide human-readable names for NSS errors
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Oct 16 2012 Kamil Dudka <kdudka(a)redhat.com> 7.21.7-8
- use NSS_InitContext() to initialize NSS if available (#767832)
- provide human-readable names for NSS errors (upstream commit a60edcc6)
* Tue Mar 13 2012 Kamil Dudka <kdudka(a)redhat.com> 7.21.7-7
- fix a failure when using digest auth and have multiple auth options (#799557)
* Tue Jan 24 2012 Kamil Dudka <kdudka(a)redhat.com> 7.21.7-6
- reject URLs containing bad data (CVE-2012-0036)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #767832 - Intermittent SSL connection failures to Active Directory using
php-ldap
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767832
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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
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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