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Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Updated curl packages available

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 24, 2000

Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:14 -0400
From: bugzilla@redhat.com
To: redhat-watch-list@redhat.com
Subject: [RHBA-2000:092-01] Updated curl packages available.


                   Red Hat, Inc. Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis:          Updated curl packages available.
Advisory ID:       RHBA-2000:092-01
Issue date:        2000-10-23
Updated on:        2000-10-23
Product:           Red Hat Powertools
Keywords:          N/A
Cross references:  N/A

1. Topic:

Updated curl packages are available for Red Hat Power Tools 6.x
and 7.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Powertools 6.1 – i386, alpha, sparc
Red Hat Powertools 6.2 – i386, alpha, sparc
Red Hat Powertools 7.0 – i386

3. Problem description:

A bug in some versions of curl would cause it to incorrectly
parse error responses from FTP servers. A malicious FTP server
could use this bug to crash its client.

4. Solution:

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
for more info):

N/A

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Powertools 6.1 and 6.2:

alpha:

ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/alpha/curl-7.3-3.6.x.alpha.rpm


ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/alpha/curl-devel-7.3-3.6.x.alpha.rpm

sparc:

ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/sparc/curl-7.3-3.6.x.sparc.rpm


ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/sparc/curl-devel-7.3-3.6.x.sparc.rpm

i386:

ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/i386/curl-7.3-3.6.x.i386.rpm


ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/i386/curl-devel-7.3-3.6.x.i386.rpm

sources:

ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/SRPMS/curl-7.3-3.6.x.src.rpm

Red Hat Powertools 7.0:

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/i386/curl-7.3-4.i386.rpm


ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/i386/curl-devel-7.3-4.i386.rpm

sources:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/SRPMS/curl-7.3-4.src.rpm

7. Verification:

MD5 sum                           Package Name

08c579be4453f69541013144cdca36e9 6.2/SRPMS/curl-7.3-3.6.x.src.rpm
bc82e6d136648cd1572c463d3cd4731d 6.2/alpha/curl-7.3-3.6.x.alpha.rpm
3e3df9b588e547669a586ddbe4dbd325 6.2/alpha/curl-devel-7.3-3.6.x.alpha.rpm
e7c01e83605fc3e117f5f02ae9807109 6.2/i386/curl-7.3-3.6.x.i386.rpm
5f310ab7ee82e3461e19ce363f5654dd 6.2/i386/curl-devel-7.3-3.6.x.i386.rpm
3b56782e10342ef8cab6d877f9aa7d93 6.2/sparc/curl-7.3-3.6.x.sparc.rpm
69df2f65f5a9c719412dc047e89971a1 6.2/sparc/curl-devel-7.3-3.6.x.sparc.rpm
8df4d3ccf26b61e978d95179b6752721 7.0/SRPMS/curl-7.3-4.src.rpm
65ea31811f5c85f52843bb925f235c8b 7.0/i386/curl-7.3-4.i386.rpm
36fbdf684f3c91d7f0cff2499d28af77 7.0/i386/curl-devel-7.3-4.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our
key is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html

You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm –checksig <filename>

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been
corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the
following command:
rpm –checksig –nogpg <filename>

8. References:

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1804


http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=116688&group_id=976

Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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