SUSE SLES12 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2022:2813-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164224

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2813-1 advisory.

- CVE-2022-27781: Fixed an issue where curl will get stuck in an infinite loop when trying to retrieve details about a TLS server's certificate chain (bnc#1199223).
- CVE-2022-27782: Fixed an issue where TLS and SSH connections would be reused even when a related option had been changed (bsc#1199224).
- CVE-2022-32206: Fixed an uncontrolled memory consumption issue caused by an unbounded number of compression layers (bsc#1200735).
- CVE-2022-32208: Fixed an incorrect message verification issue when performing FTP transfers using krb5 (bsc#1200737).

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, libcurl4 and / or libcurl4-32bit packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164224

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2813-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/17/2022

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:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-27782

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4-32bit

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: 8/16/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-27781, CVE-2022-27782, CVE-2022-32206, CVE-2022-32208

IAVA: 2022-A-0224-S, 2022-A-0255-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2813-1

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