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Fedora 44 : curl (2026-2f88b83676)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 340980

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-2f88b83676 advisory.

 - Fix QUIC zero-length UDP datagrams busy-loop (CVE-2026-11352)
 - Fix WS Auto-PONG memory exhaustion (CVE-2026-11586)
 - Fix proto-default skips SSH verification (CVE-2026-12064)
 - Fix wrong STARTTLS connection reuse (CVE-2026-8286)
 - Fix SASL double-free (CVE-2026-8925)
 - Fix env-set cross-proxy Digest auth state leak (CVE-2026-8927)
 - Fix sending old referer (CVE-2026-9546)
 - Fix exposing HTTP/3 early data (CVE-2026-9545)
 - Fix UAF after pause in socket callback (CVE-2026-9080)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-2f88b83676

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 340980

File Name: fedora_2026-2f88b83676.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/26/2026

Updated: 8/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.14

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-2026-8925

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:curl

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/25/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-11352, CVE-2026-11586, CVE-2026-12064, CVE-2026-8286, CVE-2026-8925, CVE-2026-8927, CVE-2026-9080, CVE-2026-9545, CVE-2026-9546

FEDORA: 2026-2f88b83676

IAVA: 2026-A-0627