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RHEL 8 : curl (RHSA-2023:2963)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 175857

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:2963 advisory.

 - curl: Incorrect handling of control code characters in cookies (CVE-2022-35252)

 - curl: Use-after-free triggered by an HTTP proxy deny response (CVE-2022-43552)

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-2023:2963.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?cfe2de5f

http://www.nessus.org/u?d782a9a5

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2120718

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2139337

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152652

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2166254

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2963

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 175857

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-2963.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2023

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-43552

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:curl, 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: 5/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-35252, CVE-2022-43552

CWE: 1286, 416

IAVA: 2022-A-0350-S, 2023-A-0008-S

RHSA: 2023:2963