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Amazon Linux 2 : curl (ALAS-2023-2271)

high Nessus Plugin ID 182626

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of curl installed on the remote host is prior to 8.3.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2271 advisory.

 HTTP headers eat all memory

 NOTE: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/13/1NOTE:
 https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-38039.htmlNOTE: Introduced by:
 https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/7c8c723682d524ac9580b9ca3b71419163cb5660 (curl-7_83_0)NOTE:
 Experimental tag removed in: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/4d94fac9f0d1dd02b8308291e4c47651142dc28b (curl-7_84_0)NOTE: Fixed by: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/3ee79c1674fd6f99e8efca52cd7510e08b766770 (curl-8_3_0) (CVE-2023-38039)

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

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

Solution

Run 'yum update curl' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2023-2271.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-38039.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 182626

File Name: al2_ALAS-2023-2271.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38039

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:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libcurl, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:curl-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:curl

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38039

IAVA: 2023-A-0485-S