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cURL/libcURL 'tailmatch()' Function Information Disclosure Vulnerability

medium Log Correlation Engine Plugin ID 801394

Synopsis

The cURL program is a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP. A vulnerable version of cURL was detected from the host.

Description

A flaw was found in the way libcurl matched domains associated with cookies. This could lead to cURL sending the wrong cookie if only part of the domain name matched the domain associated with the cookie, disclosing the cookie to unrelated hosts. (CVE-2013-1944)

Affected versions prior to 7.30.0 are vulnerable.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages; the next version of cURL that fixes the issue is cURL 7.21.7.

See Also

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20130412.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 801394

Family: Web Clients

Published: 7/5/2013

Nessus ID: 66206

Vulnerability Information

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1944

BID: 59058