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Fedora 18 : curl-7.27.0-10.fc18 (2013-7813)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66436

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

switch SSL socket into non-blocking mode after handshake (#960765)

 - 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?682ed2cd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66436

File Name: fedora_2013-7813.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/15/2013

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: 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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1944

BID: 59058

FEDORA: 2013-7813