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Medium RLSA-2021:1610 4 CVEs

Moderate: curl security and bug fix update

Published May 18, 2021 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

Summary

The curl packages provide the libcurl library and the curl utility for downloading files from servers using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP.

Security Fix(es):

* curl: FTP PASV command response can cause curl to connect to arbitrary host (CVE-2020-8284)

* curl: Malicious FTP server can trigger stack overflow when CURLOPT_CHUNK_BGN_FUNCTION is used (CVE-2020-8285)

* curl: Inferior OCSP verification (CVE-2020-8286)

* curl: Expired pointer dereference via multi API with CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY option set (CVE-2020-8231)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 curl 0:7.61.1-18.el8

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868032
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1873327
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895391
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902667
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902687
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1906096
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918692