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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2023:2230-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 176045

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2230-1 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).

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, libcurl4 and / or libcurl4-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211231

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211232

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211233

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211339

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2023-May/029436.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28320

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28321

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28322

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 176045

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2230-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/18/2023

Updated: 6/25/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.66

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28321

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:H/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4, 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: 5/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28320, CVE-2023-28321, CVE-2023-28322

IAVA: 2023-A-0259-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2230-1