openSUSE Security Update : curl (openSUSE-SU-2014:1139-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 77734

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

libcurl was updated to fix security issues :

CVE-2014-3613: Cookies for hosts specified by numeric IP could be assigned or used for other numeric IP hosts if portions of the numerics were the same.

CVE-2014-3620: libcurl allowed cookies to be set for toplevel domains, making them to broad.

Solution

Update the affected curl packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894575

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895991

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00028.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 77734

File Name: openSUSE-2014-547.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/18/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcurl4, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcurl4-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:curl-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:curl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcurl4-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcurl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcurl4-debuginfo-32bit

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3613, CVE-2014-3620

BID: 69742, 69748