Fedora 37 : curl (2022-e9d65906c4)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 211079

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-e9d65906c4 advisory.

- url: use IDN decoded names for HSTS checks (CVE-2022-42916)
- http_proxy: restore the protocol pointer on error (CVE-2022-42915)
- netrc: replace fgets with Curl_get_line (CVE-2022-35260)
- fix POST following PUT confusion (CVE-2022-32221)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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

Update the affected curl package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 211079

File Name: fedora_2022-e9d65906c4.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 11/14/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-32221

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:curl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:37

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-32221, CVE-2022-35260, CVE-2022-42915, CVE-2022-42916

FEDORA: 2022-e9d65906c4

IAVA: 2022-A-0451-S

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