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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : curl vulnerabilities (USN-1158-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 55414
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
Richard Silverman discovered that when doing GSSAPI authentication, libcurl unconditionally performs credential delegation, handing the server a copy of the client's security credential. (CVE-2011-2192)Wesley Miaw discovered that when zlib is enabled, libcurl does not properly restrict the amount of callback data sent to an application that requests automatic decompression. This might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service via an application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privilege of the application. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-0734)
USN 818-1 fixed an issue with curl's handling of SSL certificates with zero bytes in the Common Name. Due to a packaging error, the fix for this issue was not being applied during the build. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. We apologize for the error. (CVE-2009-2417)
Scott Cantor discovered that curl did not correctly handle SSL certificates with zero bytes in the Common Name. A remote attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected libcurl3, libcurl3-gnutls and / or libcurl3-nss packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 55414
File Name: ubuntu_USN-1158-1.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 6/24/2011
Updated: 9/19/2019
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3-gnutls, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3-nss, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2011
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/14/2009