Executive Summary



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Summary
Title curl vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3710-1 First vendor Publication 2018-07-11
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-07-11
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 17.10

Summary:

curl could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description: - curl: HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries

Details:

Peter Wu discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain SMTP buffers. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
curl 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2
libcurl3-gnutls 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2
libcurl3-nss 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2
libcurl4 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2

Ubuntu 17.10:
curl 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.6
libcurl3 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.6
libcurl3-gnutls 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.6
libcurl3-nss 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.6

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3710-1
CVE-2018-0500

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.55.1-1ubuntu2.6

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3710-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 148
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-57779d51c1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-21 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2018-1_0-0186.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-21 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0096.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-10 Name : The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.
File : al2_ALAS-2018-1052.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-30 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_3849e28f869311e896109c5c8e75236a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-30 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201807-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-12 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2018-192-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-09-11 17:21:51
  • Multiple Updates
2018-07-13 09:21:04
  • Multiple Updates
2018-07-11 17:19:14
  • First insertion