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FreeBSD : cURL -- multiple vulnerabilities (04fe6c8d-2a34-4009-a81e-e7a7e759b5d2)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 109877
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Synopsis
The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.Description
cURL security problems :CVE-2018-1000300: FTP shutdown response buffer overflow
curl might overflow a heap based memory buffer when closing down an FTP connection with very long server command replies.
When doing FTP transfers, curl keeps a spare 'closure handle' around internally that will be used when an FTP connection gets shut down since the original curl easy handle is then already removed.
FTP server response data that gets cached from the original transfer might then be larger than the default buffer size (16 KB) allocated in the 'closure handle', which can lead to a buffer overwrite. The contents and size of that overwrite is controllable by the server.
This situation was detected by an assert() in the code, but that was of course only preventing bad stuff in debug builds. This bug is very unlikely to trigger with non-malicious servers.
We are not aware of any exploit of this flaw.
CVE-2018-1000301: RTSP bad headers buffer over-read
curl can be tricked into reading data beyond the end of a heap based buffer used to store downloaded content.
When servers send RTSP responses back to curl, the data starts out with a set of headers. curl parses that data to separate it into a number of headers to deal with those appropriately and to find the end of the headers that signal the start of the 'body' part.
The function that splits up the response into headers is called Curl_http_readwrite_headers() and in situations where it can't find a single header in the buffer, it might end up leaving a pointer pointing into the buffer instead of to the start of the buffer which then later on may lead to an out of buffer read when code assumes that pointer points to a full buffer size worth of memory to use.
This could potentially lead to information leakage but most likely a crash/denial of service for applications if a server triggers this flaw.
We are not aware of any exploit of this flaw.
Solution
Update the affected package.See Also
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/security.html
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-1000300.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 109877
File Name: freebsd_pkg_04fe6c8d2a344009a81ee7a7e759b5d2.nasl
Version: 1.6
Type: local
Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks
Published: 5/17/2018
Updated: 10/4/2024
Supported Sensors: 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 Score Source: CVE-2018-1000300
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:freebsd:freebsd:curl, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2018
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/16/2018