Fedora Core 3 : curl-7.12.3-6.fc3 (2005-1136)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20304

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This package fixes a security buffer overflow bug in URL authentication code of curl (CVE-2005-4077), previous patch did not fix this problem completely.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected curl, curl-debuginfo and / or curl-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20304

File Name: fedora_2005-1136.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 12/15/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:curl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:curl-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:curl

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2005

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2005-1136

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