RHSA-2020:3916MediumCVSS 6.3

Red Hat Security Advisory: curl security update

Published
September 29, 2020
Last Modified
August 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

CVE-2019-5482 — curl: heap buffer overflow in function tftp_receive_packet()

🎯 Affected products60

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • curl-0:7.29.0-59.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • curl-0:7.29.0-59.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • curl-0:7.29.0-59.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • curl-0:7.29.0-59.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • curl-0:7.29.0-59.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • curl-0:7.29.0-59.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • curl-0:7.29.0-59.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • curl-0:7.29.0-59.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • curl-0:7.29.0-59.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • curl-0:7.29.0-59.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • curl-0:7.29.0-59.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-59.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-59.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-59.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-59.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-59.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-59.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-59.el7.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-59.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-59.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-59.el7.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-59.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-59.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-59.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Do not use TFTP with curl with smaller than the default BLKSIZE.

🔗 References (6)