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A new update is available for Fedora Core - [SECURITY] Fedora Core 3 Update: curl-7.12.3-6.fc3. Here the announcement:



Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-1136
2005-12-12
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : curl
Version : 7.12.3
Release : 6.fc3
Summary : A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others).
Description :
cURL is a tool for getting files from FTP, HTTP, Gopher, Telnet, and
Dict 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.

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Update Information:

This package fixes a security buffer overflow bug in URL
authentication code of curl (CVE-2005-4077), previous patch
did not fix this problem completely.
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* Mon Dec 12 2005 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com> 7.12.3-6.fc3
- fix CVE-2005-4077 patch - previous version of patch was not
sufficient (bug 175358)


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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

05ed3e00e72fb2801f5b1c863a9736d0 SRPMS/curl-7.12.3-6.fc3.src.rpm
45c71e917ecdf390bb716ef4c6e33e60 x86_64/curl-7.12.3-6.fc3.x86_64.rpm
901af2bd102cfe441bbea6e386813586 x86_64/curl-devel-7.12.3-6.fc3.x86_64.rpm
58c35cc4154a0ae41a73d5ded73204bf x86_64/debug/curl-debuginfo-7.12.3-6.fc3.x86_64.rpm
86d05d9970d4768ba1755c8d98506d58 x86_64/curl-7.12.3-6.fc3.i386.rpm
86d05d9970d4768ba1755c8d98506d58 i386/curl-7.12.3-6.fc3.i386.rpm
88935de6a6957572a5526ff1ca6ee490 i386/curl-devel-7.12.3-6.fc3.i386.rpm
b2179296e7040835dc109358945ded54 i386/debug/curl-debuginfo-7.12.3-6.fc3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.