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RHEL 4 : curl (RHSA-2005:875)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20364

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated curl packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

cURL is a tool for getting files from FTP, HTTP, Gopher, Telnet, and Dict servers, using any of the supported protocols.

Stefan Esser discovered an off-by-one bug in curl. It may be possible to execute arbitrary code on a user's machine if the user can be tricked into executing curl with a carefully crafted URL. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-4077 to this issue.

All users of curl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch that resolves this issue.

Solution

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

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-4077

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:875

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20364

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-875.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/30/2005

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:curl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:curl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/20/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-4077

RHSA: 2005:875