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Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: cmake / curl / mysql / rust / tensorflow (CVE-2023-23916)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 215380

Synopsis

The remote Azure Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The version of cmake / curl / mysql / rust / tensorflow installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2023-23916 advisory.

 - An allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 based on the chained HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a server response can be compressed multiple times and potentially with differentalgorithms. The number of acceptable links in this decompression chain wascapped, but the cap was implemented on a per-header basis allowing a maliciousserver to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps simply byusing many headers. The use of such a decompression chain could result in a malloc bomb, making curl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying to and returning out of memory errors. (CVE-2023-23916)

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23916

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 215380

File Name: azure_linux_CVE-2023-23916.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 2/10/2025

Updated: 2/10/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-23916

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:python3-tensorflow, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:rust, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:mysql-devel, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:cmake, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:rust-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:curl-libs, x-cpe:/o:microsoft:azure_linux, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:curl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:curl-devel, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:mysql, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:azure_linux:rust-doc

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-23916

IAVA: 2023-A-0008-S, 2023-A-0531-S