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Debian DLA-2382-1 : curl security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 140808

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

An issue has been found in curl, a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax. In rare circumstances, when using the multi API of curl in combination with CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY, the wrong connection might be used when transfering data later.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 7.52.1-5+deb9u12.

We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.

For the detailed security status of curl please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/curl

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00020.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/curl

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/curl

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 140808

File Name: debian_DLA-2382.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/28/2020

Updated: 2/20/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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:debian:debian_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcurl3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcurl3-nss, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcurl4-gnutls-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcurl3-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcurl3-gnutls, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcurl4-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcurl4-nss-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcurl4-openssl-dev

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/26/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8231

IAVA: 2020-A-0389-S