Curl Update for Win 11

[Rahul Bhichher]

Hi, The Curl Executable in C:\Windows\System32 (CURL.EXE) is version 7.83.1 which is lower than 7.87.0 and is affeacted by a use-after-free vulnerability. Curl can be asked to tunnel virtually all protocols it supports through an HTTP proxy. HTTP proxies can (and often do) deny such tunnel operations.When getting denied to tunnel the specific protocols SMB or TELNET, curl would use a heap-allocated struct after it had been freed, in its transfer shutdown code path.Referrence: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2022-43552.htmlWhen to expect an offical update from Windows as their is a latest version avai

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