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    PaulHowarth/Blog/2012-01-24

Tuesday 24th January 2012

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-List-MoreUtils to 0.33 in Rawhide:

    • Updated can_xs to fix a bug in it

Local Packages

  • Updated curl to 7.24.0:

    • curl was vulnerable to a data injection attack for certain protocols (CVE-2012-0036, http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20120124.html)

    • curl was vulnerable to a SSL CBC IV vulnerability when built to use OpenSSL (CVE-2011-3389, http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20120124B.html)

    • CURLOPT_QUOTE: SFTP supports the '*'-prefix now

    • CURLOPT_DNS_SERVERS: set name servers if possible

    • Add support for using nettle instead of gcrypt as gnutls backend

    • CURLOPT_INTERFACE: avoid resolving interfaces names with magic prefixes

    • Added CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS

    • configure: add symbols versioning option --enable-versioned-symbols

    • SSL session share: move the age counter to the share object
    • -J -O: use -O name if no Content-Disposition header comes!

    • protocol_connect: show verbose connect and set connect time

    • query-part: ignore the URI part for given protocols

    • gnutls: only translate winsock errors for old versions

    • POP3: fix end of body detection
    • POP3: detect when LIST returns no mails

    • TELNET: improved treatment of options
    • configure: add support for pkg-config detection of libidn

    • CyaSSL 2.0+ library initialization adjustment
    • multi interface: only use non-NULL socker function pointer

    • Call opensocket callback properly for active FTP

    • Don't call close socket callback for sockets created with accept()

    • Differentiate better between host/proxy errors
    • SSH: fix CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_MD5 and --hostpubmd5

    • multi: handle timeouts on DNS servers by checking for new sockets

    • CURLOPT_DNS_SERVERS: fix return code

    • POP3: fixed escaped dot not being stripped out
    • OpenSSL: check for the SSLv2 function in configure

    • MakefileBuild: fix the static build

    • create_conn: don't switch to HTTP protocol if tunneling is enabled

    • multi interface: fix block when CONNECT_ONLY option is used

    • Fix connection reuse for TLS upgraded connections
    • Multiple file upload with -F and custom type

    • multi interface: active FTP connections are no longer blocking

    • Android build fix
    • timer: restore PRETRANSFER timing

    • libcurl.m4: fix quoting arguments of AC_LANG_PROGRAM

    • appconnect time fixed for non-blocking connect ssl backends
    • Do not include SSL handshake into time spent waiting for 100-continue

    • Handle dns cache case insensitive
    • Use new host name casing for subsequent HTTP requests
    • CURLOPT_RESOLVE: avoid adding already present host names

    • SFTP mkdir: use correct permission

    • resolve: don't leak pre-populated dns entries

    • --retry: retry transfers on timeout and DNS errors

    • Negotiate with SSPI backend: use the correct buffer for input
    • SFTP dir: increase buffer size counter to avoid cut off file names

    • TFTP: fix resending (again)
    • c-ares: don't include getaddrinfo-using code

    • FTP: CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE will not close the control channel

    • win32-threaded-resolver: stop using a dummy socket
    • OpenSSL: remove reference to openssl internal struct
    • OpenSSL: SSL_OP_NETSCAPE_REUSE_CIPHER_CHANGE_BUG option no longer enabled

    • OpenSSL: fix PKCS#12 certificate parsing related memory leak
    • OpenLDAP: fix LDAP connection phase memory leak
    • Telnet: use correct file descriptor for telnet upload

    • Telnet: Remove bogus optimisation of telnet upload

    • URL parse: user name with ipv6 numerical address
    • polarssl: show cipher suite name correctly with 1.1.0
    • polarssl: havege_rand is not present in version 1.1.0 (warning: we still use the old API which is said to be insecure - see: http://polarssl.org/trac/wiki/SecurityAdvisory201102)

    • gnutls: enforced use of SSLv3

  • Updated libcurl7112 to include backported fix for SSL CBC IV vulnerability (CVE-2011-3389); note that libcurl7112 is not vulnerable to CVE-2012-0036 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20120124.html)

  • Updated libcurl7155 to include backported fix for SSL CBC IV vulnerability (CVE-2011-3389); note that libcurl7155 is not vulnerable to CVE-2012-0036 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20120124.html)

  • Cleaned up and rebuilt perl-Devel-Symdump, perl-File-Find-Rule-Perl, perl-List-MoreUtils, perl-Moose and perl-Test-Synopsis


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