Debian DSA-4051-1 : curl - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 104861

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Synopsis

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

Description

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library.

- CVE-2017-8816 Alex Nichols discovered a buffer overrun flaw in the NTLM authentication code which can be triggered on 32bit systems where an integer overflow might occur when calculating the size of a memory allocation.

- CVE-2017-8817 Fuzzing by the OSS-Fuzz project led to the discovery of a read out of bounds flaw in the FTP wildcard function in libcurl. A malicious server could redirect a libcurl-based client to an URL using a wildcard pattern, triggering the out-of-bound read.

Solution

Upgrade the curl packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 7.38.0-4+deb8u8.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 7.52.1-5+deb9u3.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 104861

File Name: debian_DSA-4051.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/30/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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:debian:debian_linux:curl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-8816, CVE-2017-8817

DSA: 4051

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