SUSE SLES12 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2021:1786-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 150083

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for curl fixes the following issues: CVE-2021-22898:
TELNET stack contents disclosure (bsc#1186114)

CVE-2021-22876: The automatic referer leaks credentials (bsc#1183933)

CVE-2020-8286: Inferior OCSP verification (bsc#1179593)

CVE-2020-8285: FTP wildcard stack overflow (bsc#1179399)

CVE-2020-8284: Trusting FTP PASV responses (bsc#1179398)

CVE-2020-8231: libcurl will pick and use the wrong connection with multiple requests with libcurl's multi API and the 'CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY' option (bsc#1175109)

Fix: SFTP uploads result in empty uploaded files (bsc#1177976)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-9-2021-1786=1

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-9-2021-1786=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP4-2021-1786=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-LTSS-2021-1786=1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 150083

File Name: suse_SU-2021-1786-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/1/2021

Updated: 12/28/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22876

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8286

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:curl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:curl-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/27/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8231, CVE-2020-8284, CVE-2020-8285, CVE-2020-8286, CVE-2021-22876, CVE-2021-22898

Detections

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