Timo Sirainen discovered that cURL, an URL transfer library, is prone to a heap overflow vulnerability due to bad checking of the input data in the curl_easy_unescape function.
The curl command line tool is not affected by this problem as it doesn’t use the curl_easy_unescape function.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-2713. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(66974);
script_version("1.9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-2174");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2713");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2713-1 : curl - heap overflow");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Timo Sirainen discovered that cURL, an URL transfer library, is prone
to a heap overflow vulnerability due to bad checking of the input data
in the curl_easy_unescape function.
The curl command line tool is not affected by this problem as it
doesn't use the curl_easy_unescape function."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/curl"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/curl"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2713"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the curl packages.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed
in version 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze4.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.26.0-1+wheezy3."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:curl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/06/24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/06/25");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"curl", reference:"7.21.0-2.1+squeeze4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libcurl3", reference:"7.21.0-2.1+squeeze4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libcurl3-dbg", reference:"7.21.0-2.1+squeeze4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libcurl3-gnutls", reference:"7.21.0-2.1+squeeze4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libcurl4-gnutls-dev", reference:"7.21.0-2.1+squeeze4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libcurl4-openssl-dev", reference:"7.21.0-2.1+squeeze4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"curl", reference:"7.26.0-1+wheezy3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libcurl3", reference:"7.26.0-1+wheezy3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libcurl3-dbg", reference:"7.26.0-1+wheezy3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libcurl3-gnutls", reference:"7.26.0-1+wheezy3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libcurl3-nss", reference:"7.26.0-1+wheezy3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libcurl4-gnutls-dev", reference:"7.26.0-1+wheezy3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libcurl4-nss-dev", reference:"7.26.0-1+wheezy3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libcurl4-openssl-dev", reference:"7.26.0-1+wheezy3")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | curl | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:curl |
debian | debian_linux | 6.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0 |
debian | debian_linux | 7.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0 |