Alpine: curl: security update to 8.2.1-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401368

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- When curl retrieves an HTTP response, it stores the incoming headers so that they can be accessed later
via the libcurl headers API. However, curl did not have a limit in how many or how large headers it would
accept in a response, allowing a malicious server to stream an endless series of headers and eventually
cause curl to run out of heap memory. (CVE-2023-38039)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=9476e06350f46f9580afe682395d0b5976bc80c5

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=f27845f3c77e5da173cc3b8ae52271149d01ca2a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 401368

Version: Revision 1.24

Type: Local

Published: 9/21/2023

Updated: 5/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

Percentile: 96.81

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38039

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38039

IAVA: 2023-A-0485