The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0428 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: FTP too eager connection reuse (CVE-2023-27535)

    * curl: GSS delegation too eager connection re-use (CVE-2023-27536)

    * curl: information disclosure by exploiting a mixed case flaw (CVE-2023-46218)

    * curl: Incorrect handling of control code characters in cookies (CVE-2022-35252)

    * curl: Use-after-free triggered by an HTTP proxy deny response (CVE-2022-43552)

    * curl: more POST-after-PUT confusion (CVE-2023-28322)

    Bug Fix(es):

    * Cannot upload files bigger than 64K to SSH-2.0-9.99 sshlib server, transfer hangs (RHEL-5483)

    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 8 : curl (RHSA-2024:0428)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 189567

Version 1.6

Version 1.5

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Version 1.0

Version 1.6 Nov 8, 2024, 5:19 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080519
Version 1.5 Nov 5, 2024, 9:32 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 threat vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/E:P") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 vector" set to "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") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411052132
Version 1.4 Jun 4, 2024, 3:18 AM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406040318
Version 1.3 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.2 Feb 2, 2024, 12:15 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202402021215
Version 1.1 Jan 29, 2024, 4:10 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202401291610
Version 1.0 Jan 26, 2024, 12:01 AM New Plugin Feed: 202401260001