Debian DSA-2660-1 : curl - exposure of sensitive information

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66159

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Yamada Yasuharu discovered that cURL, an URL transfer library, is vulnerable to expose potentially sensitive information when doing requests across domains with matching tails. Due to a bug in the tailmatch function when matching domain names, it was possible that cookies set for a domain 'ample.com' could accidentally also be sent by libcurl when communicating with 'example.com'.

Both curl the command line tool and applications using the libcurl library are vulnerable.

Solution

Upgrade the curl packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze3.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66159

File Name: debian_DSA-2660.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/22/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:curl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1944

BID: 59058

DSA: 2660

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