SUSE SLES15 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2023:2226-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 176043

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2226-1 advisory.

- CVE-2023-28320: Fixed siglongjmp race condition (bsc#1211231).
- CVE-2023-28321: Fixed IDN wildcard matching (bsc#1211232).
- CVE-2023-28322: Fixed POST-after-PUT confusion (bsc#1211233).
- CVE-2023-27533: Fixed TELNET option IAC injection (bsc#1209209).
- CVE-2023-27534: Fixed SFTP path ~ resolving discrepancy (bsc#1209210).
- CVE-2023-27535: Fixed FTP too eager connection reuse (bsc#1209211).
- CVE-2023-27536: Fixed GSS delegation too eager connection reuse (bsc#1209212).
- CVE-2023-27538: Fixed SSH connection too eager reuse still (bsc#1209214).
- CVE-2022-43552: HTTP Proxy deny use-after-free (bsc#1206309).
- CVE-2023-23916: Fixed HTTP multi-header compression denial of service (bsc#1207992).

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, libcurl-devel, libcurl4 and / or libcurl4-32bit packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 176043

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2226-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/18/2023

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.7

Percentile: 96.65

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27533

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27534

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl-devel, 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: 5/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/21/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-43552, CVE-2023-23916, CVE-2023-27533, CVE-2023-27534, CVE-2023-27535, CVE-2023-27536, CVE-2023-27538, CVE-2023-28320, CVE-2023-28321, CVE-2023-28322

IAVA: 2023-A-0008-S, 2023-A-0153-S, 2023-A-0259-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2226-1

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