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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-11521
2013-06-23 18:34:29
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Name : curl
Product : Fedora 19
Version : 7.29.0
Release : 7.fc19
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:
CVE-2013-2174 - fix heap-based buffer overflow in curl_easy_unescape()
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ChangeLog:
* Sat Jun 22 2013 Kamil Dudka <kdudka(a)redhat.com> 7.29.0-7
- fix heap-based buffer overflow in curl_easy_unescape() (CVE-2013-2174)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #965640 - CVE-2013-2174 curl: Loop counter error, leading to heap-based buffer
overflow when decoding certain URLs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=965640
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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/.
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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