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CentOS 8 : curl (CESA-2021:1610)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149767

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2021:1610 advisory.

 - curl: Expired pointer dereference via multi API with CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY option set (CVE-2020-8231)

 - curl: FTP PASV command response can cause curl to connect to arbitrary host (CVE-2020-8284)

 - curl: Malicious FTP server can trigger stack overflow when CURLOPT_CHUNK_BGN_FUNCTION is used (CVE-2020-8285)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1610

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149767

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2021-1610.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2021

Updated: 9/12/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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: 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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:curl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcurl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcurl-minimal, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcurl-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8231, CVE-2020-8284, CVE-2020-8285, CVE-2020-8286

RHSA: 2021:1610