The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5702-1 advisory.

    Robby Simpson discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain POST operations after PUT operations. This     issue could cause applications using curl to send the wrong data, perform incorrect memory operations, or     crash. (CVE-2022-32221)

    Hiroki Kurosawa discovered that curl incorrectly handled parsing .netrc files. If an attacker were able to     provide a specially crafted .netrc file, this issue could cause curl to crash, resulting in a denial of     service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-35260)

    It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain HTTP proxy return codes. A remote attacker could     use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary     code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-42915)

    Hiroki Kurosawa discovered that curl incorrectly handled HSTS support when certain hostnames included IDN     characters. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause curl to use unencrypted connections.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-42916)

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

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

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : curl vulnerabilities (USN-5702-1)

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