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Debian DSA-2023-1 : curl - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 45369

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Wesley Miaw discovered that libcurl, a multi-protocol file transfer library, is prone to a buffer overflow via the callback function when an application relies on libcurl to automatically uncompress data.
Note that this only affects applications that trust libcurl's maximum limit for a fixed buffer size and do not perform any sanity checks themselves.

Solution

Upgrade the curl packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 7.18.2-8lenny4.

Due to a problem with the archive software, we are unable to release all architectures simultaneously. Binaries for the hppa, ia64, mips, mipsel and s390 architectures will be provided once they are available.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2023

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 45369

File Name: debian_DSA-2023.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/29/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:curl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0734

BID: 38162

DSA: 2023