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Bug 171777

Summary: Curl hangs when given a zero length file as a form value
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Component: curlAssignee: Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0CC: mmalik, pknirsch, tao
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2007-0243 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-05-01 22:45:57 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 189992, 201655    
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curl-7.15.0-zeropost.patch none

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