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Fedora 37 : curl (2023-2884ba1528)

high Nessus Plugin ID 173417

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-2884ba1528 advisory.

 - fix SSH connection too eager reuse still (CVE-2023-27538)
 - fix HSTS double-free (CVE-2023-27537)
 - fix GSS delegation too eager connection re-use (CVE-2023-27536)
 - fix FTP too eager connection reuse (CVE-2023-27535)
 - fix SFTP path ~ resolving discrepancy (CVE-2023-27534)
 - fix TELNET option IAC injection (CVE-2023-27533)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected curl package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-2884ba1528

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 173417

File Name: fedora_2023-2884ba1528.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27533

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27534

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:curl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:37

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: 3/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-27533, CVE-2023-27534, CVE-2023-27535, CVE-2023-27536, CVE-2023-27537, CVE-2023-27538

FEDORA: 2023-2884ba1528

IAVA: 2023-A-0153-S