Oracle Linux 6 : curl (ELSA-2017-0847)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 99075

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2017:0847 :

An update for curl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The curl packages provide the libcurl library and the curl utility for downloading files from servers using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP.

Security Fix(es) :

* It was found that the fix for CVE-2015-3148 in curl was incomplete.
An application using libcurl with HTTP Negotiate authentication could incorrectly re-use credentials for subsequent requests to the same server. (CVE-2017-2628)

This issue was discovered by Paulo Andrade (Red Hat).

Solution

Update the affected curl packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 99075

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-0847.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 3/30/2017

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libcurl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libcurl-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2628

RHSA: 2017:0847

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