[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: curl-7.24.0-9.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-7797
2013-05-10 04:01:28
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Name        : curl
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 7.24.0
Release     : 9.fc17
URL         : http://curl.haxx.se/
Summary     : A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)
Description :
curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting
FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, IMAP,
SMTP, POP3 and RTSP.  curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP
uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password
authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer
resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.

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Update Information:

switch SSL socket into non-blocking mode after handshake (#960765)
- prevent an artificial timeout event due to stale speed-check data (#906031)
- show proper host name on failed resolve (#957173)
fix cookie tailmatching to prevent cross-domain leakage (CVE-2013-1944)
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ChangeLog:

* Thu May  9 2013 Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> 7.24.0-9
- switch SSL socket into non-blocking mode after handshake (#960765)
* Fri Apr 26 2013 Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> 7.24.0-8
- prevent an artificial timeout event due to stale speed-check data (#906031)
- show proper host name on failed resolve (#957173)
* Fri Apr 12 2013 Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> 7.24.0-7
- fix cookie tailmatching to prevent cross-domain leakage (CVE-2013-1944)
* Tue Mar 12 2013 Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> 7.24.0-6
- curl_global_init() now accepts the CURL_GLOBAL_ACK_EINTR flag (#919127)
* Wed Aug  1 2012 Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> 7.24.0-5
- use human-readable error messages provided by NSS (upstream commit 72f4b534)
- print reason phrase from HTTP status line on error (#676596)
- eliminate unnecessary inotify events on upload via file protocol (#844385)
* Sat Jun  9 2012 Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> 7.24.0-4
- fix duplicated SSL handshake with multi interface and proxy (#788526)
* Mon May 21 2012 Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> 7.24.0-3
- do not use valgrind on ppc (#810992)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #950577 - CVE-2013-1944 curl: Cookie domain suffix match vulnerability
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950577
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update curl' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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