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CentOS 5 / 6 : curl (CESA-2013:0771)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66206

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated curl packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

cURL provides the libcurl library and a command line tool for downloading files from servers using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP.

A flaw was found in the way libcurl matched domains associated with cookies. This could lead to cURL or an application linked against libcurl sending the wrong cookie if only part of the domain name matched the domain associated with the cookie, disclosing the cookie to unrelated hosts. (CVE-2013-1944)

Red Hat would like to thank the cURL project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges YAMADA Yasuharu as the original reporter.

Users of curl should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. All running applications using libcurl must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected curl packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9fe8e202

http://www.nessus.org/u?1ae31aa5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66206

File Name: centos_RHSA-2013-0771.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/25/2013

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-1944

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:curl, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcurl, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:curl-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1944

BID: 59058

RHSA: 2013:0771