Fedora 40: Important curl Security Advisory for CVE-2024-6197 and Stack Buffer Fix
Summary
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.
Update Information:
fix freeing stack buffer in utf8asn1str (CVE-2024-6197)
Change Log
* Thu Jul 25 2024 Jan Macku
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2299802 - CVE-2024-6197 curl: freeing stack buffer in utf8asn1str [fedora-40]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2299802
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-a7976ba89f' 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