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CentOS 8 : curl (CESA-2023:2963)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 175913

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Synopsis

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

Description

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

 - When curl is used to retrieve and parse cookies from a HTTP(S) server, itaccepts cookies using control codes that when later are sent back to a HTTPserver might make the server return 400 responses.
 Effectively allowing asister site to deny service to all siblings. (CVE-2022-35252)

 - A use after free vulnerability exists in curl <7.87.0. Curl can be asked to *tunnel* virtually all protocols it supports through an HTTP proxy. HTTP proxies can (and often do) deny such tunnel operations.
 When getting denied to tunnel the specific protocols SMB or TELNET, curl would use a heap-allocated struct after it had been freed, in its transfer shutdown code path. (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 affected packages.

See Also

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 175913

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2023-2963.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/17/2023

Updated: 2/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Azure, Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, 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: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcurl-minimal, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcurl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:curl, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/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

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

RHSA: 2023:2963