[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: curl-7.27.0-6.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-2098
2013-02-08 01:10:11
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Name        : curl
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 7.27.0
Release     : 6.fc18
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:

fix buffer overflow when negotiating SASL DIGEST-MD5 auth (CVE-2013-0249)
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Feb  6 2013 Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> 7.27.0-6
- fix buffer overflow when negotiating SASL DIGEST-MD5 auth (CVE-2013-0249)
* Tue Jan 15 2013 Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> 7.27.0-5
- do not print misleading NSS error codes
- update the links to cipher-suites supported by NSS
- prevent NSS from crashing on client auth hook failure
- clear session cache if a client cert from file is used
- fix error messages for CURLE_SSL_{CACERT,CRL}_BADFILE
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #906779 - CVE-2013-0249 curl: Stack-based buffer overflow when negotiating SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication with IMAP, POP3 and SMTP protocols
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906779
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