RHEL 9 : curl (RHSA-2022:6157)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 164385

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for curl.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6157 advisory.

- curl: HTTP compression denial of service (CVE-2022-32206)

- curl: Unpreserved file permissions (CVE-2022-32207)

- curl: FTP-KRB bad message verification (CVE-2022-32208)

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 RHEL curl package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:6157.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6157

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2099300

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2099306

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2099305

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

http://www.nessus.org/u?1cbd9d53

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 164385

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6157.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/24/2022

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-32207

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:curl-minimal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl-minimal

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-32206, CVE-2022-32207, CVE-2022-32208

CWE: 281, 770, 924

IAVA: 2022-A-0255-S

RHSA: 2022:6157