ALAS-2024-2490

Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2490
Advisory Release Date: 2024-02-29 18:40 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-03-04 12:00 Pacific
Severity: Low
Issue Overview:

This update enables libpsl support in curl, which adds protection against domain spanning "super cookies" as described in section 5.3 of RFC 6265.


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:
aarch64:
    curl-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    libcurl-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    libcurl-devel-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    curl-debuginfo-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.6.aarch64

i686:
    curl-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.6.i686
    libcurl-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.6.i686
    libcurl-devel-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.6.i686
    curl-debuginfo-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.6.i686

src:
    curl-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.6.src

x86_64:
    curl-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    libcurl-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    libcurl-devel-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    curl-debuginfo-8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.6.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: 

Mitre: