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    PaulHowarth/Blog/2014-01-29

Wednesday 29th January 2014

Fedora Project

  • Updated libpng10 in F-19, F-20, Rawhide and EPEL-6 to address CVE-2013-6954: handle zero-length PLTE chunk or NULL palette with png_error(), to avoid later reading from a NULL pointer (png_ptr->palette) in png_do_expand_palette()

  • Updated perl-Error to 0.17022 in Rawhide:

    • Add "use warnings;" to everything

    • Add a separate LICENSE file

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL (1.88) in F-19 to include back-ported patch from version 1.951 to use OpenSSL's default CA if the user doesn't specify one (Bug #1059002)

  • Updated perl-SQL-Statement in Rawhide to support bootstrapping the EPEL-7 build

  • Branched and built perl-DBD-CSV (0.38) for EPEL-7

  • Branched and built perl-SQL-Statement (1.405) for EPEL-7

  • Branched and built perl-Test-Assert (0.0504) for EPEL-7

Local Packages

  • Updated curl to 7.35.0:

    • imap/pop3/smtp: added support for SASL authentication downgrades

    • imap/pop3/smtp: extended the login options to support multiple auth mechanisms

    • TheArtOfHttpScripting: major update, converted layout and more

    • mprintf: added support for I, I32 and I64 size specifiers

    • makefile: added support for VC7, VC11 and VC12

    • Security Advisory: re-use of wrong HTTP NTLM connection (CVE-2014-0015)

    • curl_easy_setopt: fixed OAuth 2.0 Bearer option name

    • pop3: fixed APOP being determined by CAPA response rather than by timestamp

    • Curl_pp_readresp: zero terminate line

    • FILE: don't wait due to CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE

    • Docs: mention CURLOPT_MAX_RECV/SEND_SPEED_LARGE don't work for FILE://

    • pop3: fixed auth preference not being honoured when CAPA not supported

    • imap: fixed auth preference not being honoured when CAPABILITY not supported

    • Threaded resolver: use pthread_t * for curl_thread_t

    • FILE: we don't support paused transfers using this protocol

    • connect: try all addresses in first connection attempt

    • curl_easy_setopt.3: added SMTP information to CURLOPT_INFILESIZE_LARGE

    • OpenSSL: fix forcing SSLv3 connections

    • OpenSSL: allow explicit SSLv2 selection

    • FTP parselist: fix "total" parser

    • conncache: fix possible dereference of null pointer

    • multi.c: fix possible dereference of null pointer

    • mk-ca-bundle: introduces -d and warns about using this script

    • ConnectionExists: fix NTLM check for new connection

    • trynextip: fix build for non-IPV6 capable systems

    • Curl_updateconninfo: don't do anything for UDP "connections"

    • darwinssl: un-break Leopard build after PKCS#12 change

    • threaded-resolver: never use NULL hints with getaddrinf

    • multi_socket: remind app if timeout didn't run

    • OpenSSL: deselect weak ciphers by default
    • Error message: sensible message on timeout when transfer size unknown
    • curl_easy_setopt.3: mention how to unset CURLOPT_INFILESIZE*

    • Win32: fixed use of deprecated function 'GetVersionInfoEx' for VC12

    • configure: fix gssapi linking on HP-UX

    • chunked-parser: abort on overflows, allow 64 bit chunks

    • Chunked parsing: relax the CR strictness

    • cookie: max-age fixes

    • Progress bar: always update when at 100%
    • Progress bar: increase update frequency to 10 Hz
    • Tool: fixed incorrect return code if command line parser runs out of memory
    • Tool: fixed incorrect return code if password prompting runs out of memory
    • HTTP POST: omit Content-Length if data size is unknown

    • GnuTLS: disable insecure ciphers
    • GnuTLS: honour --slv2 and the --tlsv1[.N] switches

    • multi: fixed a memory leak on OOM condition

    • netrc: fixed a memory and file descriptor leak on OOM

    • getpass: fix password parsing from console

    • TFTP: fix crash on timeout

    • hostip: don't remove DNS entries that are in use

    • Tests: lots of tests fixed to pass the OOM torture tests
  • Updated libpng10 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Email-Address to 1.901:

    • Further avoidance of stringifying to undef

  • Updated perl-Error to 0.17022 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-File-ShareDir-Install to 0.08:

    • Tests may now be run in parallel


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