Debian DSA-4202-1 : curl - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 109901

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

OSS-fuzz, assisted by Max Dymond, discovered that cURL, an URL transfer library, could be tricked into reading data beyond the end of a heap based buffer when parsing invalid headers in an RTSP response.

Solution

Upgrade the curl packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 7.38.0-4+deb8u11.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 7.52.1-5+deb9u6.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898856

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/curl

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/curl

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/curl

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4202

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 109901

File Name: debian_DSA-4202.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/18/2018

Updated: 11/13/2018

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:curl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000301

DSA: 4202