CentOS 9 : curl-7.76.1-31.el9

high Nessus Plugin ID 206292

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update for curl.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the curl-7.76.1-31.el9 build changelog.

- When an application tells libcurl it wants to allow HTTP/2 server push, and the amount of received headers for the push surpasses the maximum allowed limit (1000), libcurl aborts the server push. When aborting, libcurl inadvertently does not free all the previously allocated headers and instead leaks the memory.
Further, this error condition fails silently and is therefore not easily detected by an application.
(CVE-2024-2398)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the CentOS 9 Stream curl package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=67715

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 206292

File Name: centos9_curl-7_76_1-31_67715.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/28/2024

Updated: 8/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2398

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:curl, cpe:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcurl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcurl-minimal, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:curl-minimal

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2398

IAVA: 2024-A-0185-S