OracleVM 3.3 : curl (OVMSA-2015-0107)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85148

Synopsis

The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

- require credentials to match for NTLM re-use (CVE-2015-3143)

- close Negotiate connections when done (CVE-2015-3148)

- reject CRLFs in URLs passed to proxy (CVE-2014-8150)

- use only full matches for hosts used as IP address in cookies (CVE-2014-3613)

- fix handling of CURLOPT_COPYPOSTFIELDS in curl_easy_duphandle (CVE-2014-3707)

- fix manpage typos found using aspell (#1011101)

- fix comments about loading CA certs with NSS in man pages (#1011083)

- fix handling of DNS cache timeout while a transfer is in progress (#835898)

- eliminate unnecessary inotify events on upload via file protocol (#883002)

- use correct socket type in the examples (#997185)

- do not crash if MD5 fingerprint is not provided by libssh2 (#1008178)

- fix SIGSEGV of curl --retry when network is down (#1009455)

- allow to use TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 (#1012136)

- docs: update the links to cipher-suites supported by NSS (#1104160)

- allow to use ECC ciphers if NSS implements them (#1058767)

- make curl --trace-time print correct time (#1120196)

- let tool call PR_Cleanup on exit if NSPR is used (#1146528)

- ignore CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE during NTLM HTTP auth (#1154747)

- allow to enable/disable new AES cipher-suites (#1156422)

- include response headers added by proxy in CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE (#1161163)

- disable libcurl-level downgrade to SSLv3 (#1154059)

- do not force connection close after failed HEAD request (#1168137)

- fix occasional SIGSEGV during SSL handshake (#1168668)

- fix a connection failure when FTPS handle is reused (#1154663)

- fix re-use of wrong HTTP NTLM connection (CVE-2014-0015)

- fix connection re-use when using different log-in credentials (CVE-2014-0138)

- fix authentication failure when server offers multiple auth options (#799557)

- refresh expired cookie in test172 from upstream test-suite (#1069271)

- fix a memory leak caused by write after close (#1078562)

- nss: implement non-blocking SSL handshake (#1083742)

Solution

Update the affected curl / libcurl packages.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2015-July/000355.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85148

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0107.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Published: 7/31/2015

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:curl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:libcurl, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleVM/release, Host/OracleVM/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0015, CVE-2014-0138, CVE-2014-3613, CVE-2014-3707, CVE-2014-8150, CVE-2015-3143, CVE-2015-3148

BID: 65270, 66457, 69748, 70988, 71964, 74299, 74301