EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : curl (EulerOS-SA-2018-1202)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 110866
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
Description
According to the versions of the curl packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :
- curl version curl 7.20.0 to and including curl 7.59.0 contains a Buffer Over-read vulnerability in denial of service that can result in curl can be tricked into reading data beyond the end of a heap based buffer used to store downloaded rtsp content.(CVE-2018-1000301)
- curl version curl 7.20.0 to and including curl 7.59.0 contains a Buffer Over-read vulnerability in denial of service that can result in curl can be tricked into reading data beyond the end of a heap based buffer used to store downloaded rtsp content.(CVE-2016-9586)
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected curl packages.