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Category: Fedora Local Security Checks Risk factor: High Added: 31 Jan 2012
Synopsis:

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory FEDORA-2012-0894.

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.

Update Information:

reject URLs containing bad data (CVE-2012-0036)

Solution:

Update the affected package(s) using, for example, 'yum update'.

Risk factor:

High