Google: net-misc/curl: security update to 17148.0.0

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 453793

Description

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

- curl < 7.84.0 supports "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a serverresponse can be
compressed multiple times and potentially with different algorithms. The number of acceptable "links" in
this "decompression chain" was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited
number of compression steps.The use of such a decompression chain could result in a "malloc bomb",
makingcurl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying toand returning out of
memory errors. (CVE-2022-32206)

Solution

Update the net-misc/curl library and its related packages to version 17148.0.0 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 453793

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Google COS Security Checks

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-32206

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-32206

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