OracleVM 3.3 / 3.4 : curl (OVMSA-2017-0059)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 99113

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 :

- treat Negotiate authentication as connection-oriented (CVE-2017-2628)

- fix a bug in DNS caching code that causes a memory leak (#1302893)

- SSH: make CURLOPT_SSH_PUBLIC_KEYFILE treat '' as NULL (#1260742)

- use the default min/max TLS version provided by NSS (#1289205)

- prevent NSS from incorrectly re-using a session (#1269660)

- prevent test46 from failing due to expired cookie (#1277551)

- SSH: do not require public key file for user authentication (#1260742)

- make SCP/SFTP work with --proxytunnel (#1258566)

Solution

Update the affected curl / libcurl packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0f34b236

http://www.nessus.org/u?ab354e79

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 99113

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0059.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Published: 3/31/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:curl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:libcurl, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.3, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2628