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Fedora Core 3 : curl-7.12.3-4.fc3 (2005-1000)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20056

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This package fixes a buffer overflow bug in NTLM authentication code of curl (CVE-2005-3185).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected curl, curl-debuginfo and / or curl-devel packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?223fcef5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20056

File Name: fedora_2005-1000.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/19/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:curl, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:curl-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:curl-debuginfo

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3185

FEDORA: 2005-1000