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Debian DSA-4386-1 : curl - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 121628

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Synopsis

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

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library.

 - CVE-2018-16890 Wenxiang Qian of Tencent Blade Team discovered that the function handling incoming NTLM type-2 messages does not validate incoming data correctly and is subject to an integer overflow vulnerability, which could lead to an out-of-bounds buffer read.

 - CVE-2019-3822 Wenxiang Qian of Tencent Blade Team discovered that the function creating an outgoing NTLM type-3 header is subject to an integer overflow vulnerability, which could lead to an out-of-bounds write.

 - CVE-2019-3823 Brian Carpenter of Geeknik Labs discovered that the code handling the end-of-response for SMTP is subject to an out-of-bounds heap read.

Solution

Upgrade the curl packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 7.52.1-5+deb9u9.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16890

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-3822

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-3823

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

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4386

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 121628

File Name: debian_DSA-4386.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/7/2019

Updated: 12/6/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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: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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16890, CVE-2019-3822, CVE-2019-3823

DSA: 4386