The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6429-1 advisory.

    Jay Satiro discovered that curl incorrectly handled hostnames when using a SOCKS5 proxy. In environments     where curl is configured to use a SOCKS5 proxy, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute     arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-38545)

    It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled cookies when an application duplicated certain handles. A     local attacker could possibly create a cookie file and inject arbitrary cookies into subsequent     connections. (CVE-2023-38546)

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

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

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : curl vulnerabilities (USN-6429-1)

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