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Fedora 33 : curl (2020-ceaf490686)

high Nessus Plugin ID 144241

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- curl: Inferior OCSP verification (CVE-2020-8286)

 - libcurl: FTP wildcard stack overflow (CVE-2020-8285)

 - curl: trusting FTP PASV responses (CVE-2020-8284)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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Solution

Update the affected curl package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-ceaf490686

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 144241

File Name: fedora_2020-ceaf490686.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/15/2020

Updated: 2/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8286

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:N/I:H/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:curl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:33

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/15/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8284, CVE-2020-8285, CVE-2020-8286

FEDORA: 2020-ceaf490686

IAVA: 2020-A-0581