Debian DSA-2902-1 : curl - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73486

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2014-0138 Steve Holme discovered that libcurl can in some circumstances re-use the wrong connection when asked to do transfers using other protocols than HTTP and FTP.

- CVE-2014-0139 Richard Moore from Westpoint Ltd. reported that libcurl does not behave compliant to RFC 2828 under certain conditions and incorrectly validates wildcard SSL certificates containing literal IP addresses.

Solution

Upgrade the curl packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze8.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 7.26.0-1+wheezy9.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73486

File Name: debian_DSA-2902.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/14/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:curl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/13/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0138, CVE-2014-0139

BID: 66457, 66458

DSA: 2902

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