Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : curl (MDKSA-2005:048)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17277

Synopsis

The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

'infamous41md' discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in libcurl's NTLM authorization base64 decoding. This could allow a remote attacker using a prepared remote server to execute arbitrary code as the user running curl.

The updated packages are patched to deal with these issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17277

File Name: mandrake_MDKSA-2005-048.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Family: Mandriva Local Security Checks

Published: 3/6/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64curl3-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libcurl3, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64curl3, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libcurl2, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64curl2-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libcurl2-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libcurl3-devel, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:curl, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:10.1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64curl2

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0490

MDKSA: 2005:048

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