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A curl security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: curl-8.0.1-4.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-b1253907f1
2023-09-16 01:28:00.682524
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Name : curl
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 8.0.1
Release : 4.fc38
URL : https://curl.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 HTTP headers eat all memory (CVE-2023-38039)
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Sep 13 2023 Jan Macku [jamacku@redhat.com] - 8.0.1-4
- fix HTTP headers eat all memory (CVE-2023-38039)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2239136 - CVE-2023-38039 curl: out of heap memory issue due to missing limit on header quntity [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239136
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-b1253907f1' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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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