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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : curl vulnerability (USN-1894-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67138

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Synopsis

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

Description

Timo Sirainen discovered that libcurl incorrectly handled memory when parsing URL encoded strings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libcurl to crash, leading to a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code.

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Solution

Update the affected libcurl3, libcurl3-gnutls and / or libcurl3-nss packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1894-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 67138

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1894-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/3/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3-gnutls, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3-nss, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/31/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2174

BID: 60737

USN: 1894-1