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RHSA-2022:6157

curl security update

Released 2022-08-24 · Red Hat rating Moderate · View on Red Hat →

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Priority HIGH 82

When curl < 7.84.0 saves cookies, alt-svc and hsts data to local files, it makes the operation atomic by finalizing the operation with a rename from a temporary name to the final target file name.In that rename operation…

CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.12321 Published 2022-07-07 Partial fix CWE-840
Priority MEDIUM 62

curl < 7.84.0 supports "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a serverresponse can be compressed multiple times and potentially with different algorithms.

CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5 Network No auth User interaction EPSS 0.36348 Published 2022-07-07 Partial fix CWE-770
Priority MEDIUM 60

When curl < 7.84.0 does FTP transfers secured by krb5, it handles message verification failures wrongly.

CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.08373 Published 2022-07-07 Partial fix CWE-840