The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5700 advisory.

    The curl packages provide the libcurl library and the curl utility for downloading files from servers     using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP.

    Security Fix(es):

    * curl: a heap-based buffer overflow in the SOCKS5 proxy handshake (CVE-2023-38545)

    * curl: cookie injection with none file (CVE-2023-38546)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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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RHEL 9 : curl (RHSA-2023:5700)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 183082

Version 1.12