Google: net-misc/curl: security update to 17800.309.7

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 452600

Description

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

- libcurl's ASN1 parser has this utf8asn1str() function used for parsing an ASN.1 UTF-8 string. Itcan detect
an invalid field and return error. Unfortunately, when doing so it also invokes `free()` on a 4 byte
localstack buffer. Most modern malloc implementations detect this error and immediately abort. Some
however accept the input pointer and add that memory to its list of available chunks. This leads to the
overwriting of nearby stack memory. The content of the overwrite is decided by the `free()`
implementation; likely to be memory pointers and a set of flags. The most likely outcome of exploting this
flaw is a crash, although it cannot be ruled out that more serious results can be had in special
circumstances. (CVE-2024-6197)

Solution

Update the net-misc/curl library and its related packages to version 17800.309.7 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 452600

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: Google COS Security Checks

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.66

Vendor

Vendor Severity: MEDIUM

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-2024-6197

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

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-6197

Detections

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