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openSUSE Security Update : curl (openSUSE-2020-1359)

high Nessus Plugin ID 140372

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for curl fixes the following issues :

 - An application that performs multiple requests with libcurl's multi API and sets the 'CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY' option, might in rare circumstances experience that when subsequently using the setup connect-only transfer, libcurl will pick and use the wrong connection and instead pick another one the application has created since then. [bsc#1175109, CVE-2020-8231]

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected curl packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1175109

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 140372

File Name: openSUSE-2020-1359.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/8/2020

Updated: 2/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8231

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcurl4, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcurl4-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcurl-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcurl4-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:curl-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:curl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcurl4-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcurl-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/7/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8231

IAVA: 2020-A-0389-S