[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: curl-7.19.4-1.fc10

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-2247
2009-03-03 14:58:08
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Name        : curl
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 7.19.4
Release     : 1.fc10
URL         : http://curl.haxx.se/
Summary     : A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)
Description :
cURL is a tool for getting files from HTTP, FTP, FILE, LDAP, LDAPS,
DICT, TELNET and TFTP servers, using any of the supported protocols.
cURL is designed to work without user interaction or any kind of
interactivity. cURL offers many useful capabilities, like proxy support,
user authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, and file transfer resume.

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Update Information:

Update to curl-7.19.4 fixes CVE-2009-0037.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Mar  3 2009 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> 7.19.4-1
- update to 7.19.4 (fixes CVE-2009-0037)
- fix leak in curl_easy* functions, thanks to Kamil Dudka
- drop nss-proxy, sslgen, nss-init patches
- update badsocket patch
* Mon Dec 15 2008 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> 7.18.2-9
- release++ because of tag conflict caused by f10/rawhide branch split
* Sun Dec 14 2008 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> 7.18.2-8
- use improved NSS patch, thanks to Rob Crittenden (#472489)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #485271 - CVE-2009-0037 curl: local file access via unsafe redirects
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485271
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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