Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 17.10 : curl vulnerabilities (USN-3598-1)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 108403
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
Phan Thanh discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain FTP paths.An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-1000120)
Dario Weisser discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain LDAP URLs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-1000121)
Max Dymond discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain RTSP data.
An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or even to get access to sensitive data. (CVE-2018-1000122).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 108403
File Name: ubuntu_USN-3598-1.nasl
Version: 1.5
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 3/16/2018
Updated: 9/18/2019
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3-gnutls, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3-nss, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2018
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2018
Reference Information
USN: 3598-1