Tuesday, February 9, 2010

libcurl security vulnerability is fixed in the recent release (7.20.0)

libcurl 7.20.0 is released by fixing a vulnerability described in Security Advisory February 9 2010 . Maintainers of the binary distributions are suggested to take one of the following actions as soon as possible:

A - Upgrade to curl and libcurl 7.20.0
B - Apply this patch and rebuild
C - Disable automatic content encoding decompression in your application
D - Rebuild curl without zlib support
E - change your code to use 4*CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE for buffer sizes

1 comments:

  1. There is some good news about the latest one from libcurl has been be provided better security by fixing the problem. I think that it would be a very good thing to have the best of the things as this would ensure that we do achieve some good utility with it.

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