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Fedora 18 : curl-7.27.0-9.fc18 (2013-6766)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66324

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- prevent an artificial timeout event due to stale speed-check data (#906031)

 - show proper host name on failed resolve (#957173) fix cookie tailmatching to prevent cross-domain leakage (CVE-2013-1944)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected curl package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950577

http://www.nessus.org/u?8b49679b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66324

File Name: fedora_2013-6766.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/6/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:curl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/26/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1944

FEDORA: 2013-6766