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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : curl vulnerability (USN-1801-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65981

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

YAMADA Yasuharu discovered that libcurl was vulnerable to a cookie leak when doing requests across domains with matching tails. curl did not properly restrict cookies to domains and subdomains. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted URL, an attacker could read cookie values stored by unrelated webservers.

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Solution

Update the affected curl and / or libcurl3 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1801-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65981

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1801-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/16/2013

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:curl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/15/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1944

BID: 59058

USN: 1801-1