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Debian DSA-4286-1 : curl - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 117298

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Synopsis

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

Description

Zhaoyang Wu discovered that cURL, an URL transfer library, contains a buffer overflow in the NTLM authentication code triggered by passwords that exceed 2GB in length on 32bit systems.

See https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-14618.html for more information.

Solution

Upgrade the curl packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 7.52.1-5+deb9u7.

See Also

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-14618.html

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

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4286

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 117298

File Name: debian_DSA-4286.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/6/2018

Updated: 1/22/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

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:debian:debian_linux:curl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14618

DSA: 4286