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Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Updated curl packages available

Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:14 -0400
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
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.

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