Bug 171777 - Curl hangs when given a zero length file as a form value
Summary: Curl hangs when given a zero length file as a form value
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: curl
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Jindrich Novy
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Blocks: 189992 FAST4.5APPROVED
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-10-26 10:47 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2013-07-02 23:10 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHBA-2007-0243
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2007-05-01 22:45:57 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
curl-7.15.0-zeropost.patch (515 bytes, patch)
2005-10-26 10:47 UTC, Bastien Nocera
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2007:0243 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE curl bug fix update 2007-04-28 17:52:05 UTC

Description Bastien Nocera 2005-10-26 10:47:31 UTC
$ touch /tmp/order_ids
$ curl -F "order_ids=</tmp/order_ids" --location http://blah.blah/foo
<curl will hang at that point>

The upstream bug is at:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100976&aid=1069285&group_id=976

Also attached the upstream patch.

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2005-10-26 10:47:31 UTC
Created attachment 120402 [details]
curl-7.15.0-zeropost.patch

Comment 16 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-05-01 22:45:57 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0243.html



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