Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.10 : curl vulnerability (USN-2097-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72278

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Synopsis

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

Description

Paras Sethia and Yehezkel Horowitz discovered that libcurl incorrectly reused connections when NTLM authentication was being used. This could lead to the use of unintended credentials, possibly exposing sensitive information.

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Solution

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72278

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2097-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 2/4/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3-gnutls, 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:13.10, 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: 2/3/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0015

BID: 65270

USN: 2097-1

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