A heap use-after-free flaw was found in curl related to closing an easy handle. When closing and cleaning up an ‘easy’ handle in the Curl_close()
function, the library code first frees a struct (without nulling the pointer) and might then subsequently erroneously write to a struct field within that already freed struct.
(CVE-2018-16840)
Curl is vulnerable to a buffer overrun in the SASL authentication code that may lead to denial of service. (CVE-2018-16839)
Curl is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the tool_msgs.c:voutf() function that may result in information exposure and denial of service. (CVE-2018-16842)
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2019-1148.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(121369);
script_version("1.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/02/20");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-16839", "CVE-2018-16840", "CVE-2018-16842");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2019-1148");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2019-1148)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"A heap use-after-free flaw was found in curl related to closing an
easy handle. When closing and cleaning up an 'easy' handle in the
`Curl_close()` function, the library code first frees a struct
(without nulling the pointer) and might then subsequently erroneously
write to a struct field within that already freed struct.
(CVE-2018-16840)
Curl is vulnerable to a buffer overrun in the SASL authentication code
that may lead to denial of service. (CVE-2018-16839)
Curl is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the
tool_msgs.c:voutf() function that may result in information exposure
and denial of service. (CVE-2018-16842)"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2019-1148.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Run 'yum update curl' to update your system."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:curl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:curl-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libcurl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libcurl-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/10/31");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/01/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/01/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "A")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"curl-7.53.1-16.86.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"curl-debuginfo-7.53.1-16.86.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"libcurl-7.53.1-16.86.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"libcurl-devel-7.53.1-16.86.amzn1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "curl / curl-debuginfo / libcurl / libcurl-devel");
}