On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, isshed wrote:
>
>> my application which is using curl 7.12.1 is crashing
>
>
> Argh. *Now* you're telling us you're using a curl release we shipped while
> mammoths were still walking the earth.
>
> curl version 7.12.1 was released on August 10 2004, so it just passed
> *twelve* years old.
>
> Stop using that immediately. Upgrde to something modern and stop searching
> for bugs to fix. We've literally fixed thousands of bugs since back then. We
> all have much better things to do with our time.
>
> curl version 7.12.1 also contains no less than 23 known security
> vulnerabilities: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/vuln-7.12.1.html
>
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>
> / daniel.haxx.se
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Thanks Daniel. But up-gradation to latest version is not our immediate
plan. We shall be doing it in next major release of our application
which is planned in the next 6 months.

It would be a great help if you can help me fixing this issue in this
release(7.12.1) itself.

Thanks a lot!!
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Received on 2016-08-22