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Fedora 31 : curl (2019-6d7f6fa2c8)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 129626

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- double free due to subsequent call of realloc() (CVE-2019-5481)

 - fix heap buffer overflow in function tftp_receive_packet() (CVE-2019-5482)

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 - avoid reporting spurious error in the HTTP2 framing layer (#1690971)

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Solution

Update the affected curl package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-6d7f6fa2c8

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 129626

File Name: fedora_2019-6d7f6fa2c8.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/7/2019

Updated: 4/19/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2019-5482

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:fedoraproject:fedora:curl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/21/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5481, CVE-2019-5482