Debian DSA-5587-1 : curl - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 187288

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5587 advisory.

Two security issues were discovered in Curl: Cookies were incorrectly validated against the public suffix list of domains and in some cases HSTS data could fail to save to disk. For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u11. For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 7.88.1-10+deb12u5. We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages. For the detailed security status of curl please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/curl

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian 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

Upgrade the curl packages.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 7.88.1-10+deb12u5.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 187288

File Name: debian_DSA-5587.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/24/2023

Updated: 1/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46218

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcurl4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:curl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcurl3-nss, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcurl4-gnutls-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcurl4-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcurl3-gnutls, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcurl4-nss-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcurl4-openssl-dev

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/23/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46218, CVE-2023-46219

IAVA: 2023-A-0674-S

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