Important: curl security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-38545   CVE-2023-38546  

Synopsis

Important: curl security update

Type / Sévérité

Security Advisory: Important

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Sujet

An update for curl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The curl packages provide the libcurl library and the curl utility for downloading files from servers using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP.

Security Fix(es):

  • curl: a heap-based buffer overflow in the SOCKS5 proxy handshake (CVE-2023-38545)
  • curl: cookie injection with none file (CVE-2023-38546)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Produits concernés

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Correctifs

  • BZ - 2241933 - CVE-2023-38545 curl: heap based buffer overflow in the SOCKS5 proxy handshake
  • BZ - 2241938 - CVE-2023-38546 curl: cookie injection with none file