GLSA-202409-20 : curl: Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 207580

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202409-20 (curl: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in curl. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo 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.

Solution

All curl users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=net-misc/curl-8.7.1

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202409-20

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=919325

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=919889

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923413

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=927960

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 207580

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202409-20.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 9/23/2024

Updated: 9/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

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:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:curl

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-42619, CVE-2023-46218, CVE-2023-46219, CVE-2024-0853, CVE-2024-2004, CVE-2024-2398, CVE-2024-2466