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Fedora Security Update Fixes cURL Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes cURL Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-2813
CVE ID : CVE-2005-4077
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-12-09

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Technical Description

Fedora has released updated packages to address a vulnerability identified in cURL. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in "lib/url.c" when processing overly long URLs, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. For additional information, see : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-2791

ChangeLog

2005-12-09 : Initial release

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