Important: curl

Issue Overview:

Curl version curl 7.54.1 to and including curl 7.59.0 contains a CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in denial of service and more that can result in curl might overflow a heap based memory buffer when closing down an FTP connection with very long server command replies.(CVE-2018-1000300)

Curl version curl 7.20.0 to and including curl 7.59.0 contains a CWE-126: Buffer Over-read vulnerability in denial of service that can result in curl can be tricked into reading data beyond the end of a heap based buffer used to store downloaded RTSP content.(CVE-2018-1000301)

Affected Packages:

curl

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update curl to update your system.

New Packages:

src:  
    curl-7.55.1-12.amzn2.0.1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    curl-7.55.1-12.amzn2.0.1.x86_64  
    libcurl-7.55.1-12.amzn2.0.1.x86_64  
    libcurl-devel-7.55.1-12.amzn2.0.1.x86_64  
    curl-debuginfo-7.55.1-12.amzn2.0.1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-1000300, CVE-2018-1000301

Mitre: CVE-2018-1000300, CVE-2018-1000301