CentOS 7 : curl (CESA-2019:1880)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 127470

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for curl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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) :

* curl: NTLM password overflow via integer overflow (CVE-2018-14618)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es) :

* baseurl with file:// hangs and then timeout in yum repo (BZ#1709474)

* curl crashes on http links with rate-limit (BZ#1711914)

Solution

Update the affected curl packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 127470

File Name: centos_RHSA-2019-1880.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 1/6/2020

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14618

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:centos:centos:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcurl, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:curl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14618

RHSA: 2019:1880

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