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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-7264

medium Nessus Plugin ID 230387

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - libcurl's ASN1 parser code has the `GTime2str()` function, used for parsing an ASN.1 Generalized Time field. If given an syntactically incorrect field, the parser might end up using -1 for the length of the
 *time fraction*, leading to a `strlen()` getting performed on a pointer to a heap buffer area that is not (purposely) null terminated. This flaw most likely leads to a crash, but can also lead to heap contents getting returned to the application when [CURLINFO_CERTINFO](https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLINFO_CERTINFO.html) is used. (CVE-2024-7264)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2024-7264

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 230387

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_7264.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/6/2025

Updated: 9/2/2025

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: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-7264

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:mysql8.4-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mysql8.4-test-data, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mysql8.4-common, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl-minimal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mysql8.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mysql8.4-test-data, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mysql8.4-errmsg, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mysql8.4-test, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mysql8.4-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mysql8.4-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mysql8.4-errmsg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mysql8.4-test, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mysql8.4-server, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcurl-minimal, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mysql8.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcurl, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mysql8.4-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:curl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:curl-minimal, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mysql8.4-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mysql8.4-server, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcurl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:curl-minimal

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/31/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-7264