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Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-730)

🗓️ 26 Oct 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType 
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Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-730). The 'curl' package(s) on Amazon Linux is missing an update

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.120719");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-5419", "CVE-2016-5420", "CVE-2016-5421");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-10-26 12:38:18 +0000 (Wed, 26 Oct 2016)");
  script_version("2025-01-23T05:37:39+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-01-23 05:37:39 +0000 (Thu, 23 Jan 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-05-08 17:43:00 +0000 (Fri, 08 May 2020)");

  script_name("Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-730)");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/amazon_linux", "ssh/login/release");

  script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"ALAS-2016-730");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-730.html");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'curl' package(s) announced via the ALAS-2016-730 advisory.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"curl and libcurl before 7.50.1 do not prevent TLS session resumption when the client certificate has changed, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions by resuming a session. (CVE-2016-5419)

curl and libcurl before 7.50.1 do not check the client certificate when choosing the TLS connection to reuse, which might allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of the connection by leveraging a previously created connection with a different client certificate. (CVE-2016-5420)

libcurl before 7.50.1 allows attackers to control which connection is used or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. (CVE-2016-5421)");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'curl' package(s) on Amazon Linux.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");

  exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");

release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
  exit(0);

res = "";
report = "";

if(release == "AMAZON") {

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"curl", rpm:"curl~7.40.0~8.59.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"curl-debuginfo", rpm:"curl-debuginfo~7.40.0~8.59.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libcurl", rpm:"libcurl~7.40.0~8.59.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libcurl-devel", rpm:"libcurl-devel~7.40.0~8.59.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
  } else if(__pkg_match) {
    exit(99);
  }
  exit(0);
}

exit(0);

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