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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2021:2439-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 151990

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2439-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2021-22925: TELNET stack contents disclosure again. (bsc#1188220)
 - CVE-2021-22924: Bad connection reuse due to flawed path name checks. (bsc#1188219)
 - CVE-2021-22923: Insufficiently Protected Credentials. (bsc#1188218)
 - CVE-2021-22922: Wrong content via metalink not discarded. (bsc#1188217)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected curl, libcurl-devel, libcurl4 and / or libcurl4-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188217

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188218

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188219

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188220

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-22922

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-22923

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-22924

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-22925

http://www.nessus.org/u?c0319fcd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 151990

File Name: suse_SU-2021-2439-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/22/2021

Updated: 6/25/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22925

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22922

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 7/21/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/24/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22922, CVE-2021-22923, CVE-2021-22924, CVE-2021-22925

IAVA: 2021-A-0352-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:2439-1