7.5 - RHSA-2019:3701

Problem Description:

An update for curl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

3. 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: NTLM type-2 heap out-of-bounds buffer read (CVE-2018-16890)

* wget: Information exposure in set_file_metadata function in xattr.c (CVE-2018-20483)

* curl: NTLMv2 type-3 header stack buffer overflow (CVE-2019-3822)

* curl: SMTP end-of-response out-of-bounds read (CVE-2019-3823)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

4. 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

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1662705 - CVE-2018-20483 wget: Information exposure in set_file_metadata function in xattr.c 1669156 - connection re-use does not work for SCP and SFTP 1670252 - CVE-2018-16890 curl: NTLM type-2 heap out-of-bounds buffer read 1670254 - CVE-2019-3822 curl: NTLMv2 type-3 header stack buffer overflow 1670256 - CVE-2019-3823 curl: SMTP end-of-response out-of-bounds read