openSUSE: Security Advisory for curl (openSUSE-SU-2016:2768-1)
🗓️ 11 Nov 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType
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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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.851432");
script_version("2026-04-24T06:23:04+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-04-24 06:23:04 +0000 (Fri, 24 Apr 2026)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-11-11 05:47:41 +0100 (Fri, 11 Nov 2016)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-7167", "CVE-2016-8615", "CVE-2016-8616", "CVE-2016-8617",
"CVE-2016-8618", "CVE-2016-8619", "CVE-2016-8620", "CVE-2016-8621",
"CVE-2016-8622", "CVE-2016-8623", "CVE-2016-8624");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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:"2018-11-13 11:29:00 +0000 (Tue, 13 Nov 2018)");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_name("openSUSE: Security Advisory for curl (openSUSE-SU-2016:2768-1)");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"This update for curl fixes the following security issues:
- CVE-2016-8624: invalid URL parsing with '#' (bsc#1005646)
- CVE-2016-8623: Use-after-free via shared cookies (bsc#1005645)
- CVE-2016-8622: URL unescape heap overflow via integer truncation
(bsc#1005643)
- CVE-2016-8621: curl_getdate read out of bounds (bsc#1005642)
- CVE-2016-8620: glob parser write/read out of bounds (bsc#1005640)
- CVE-2016-8619: double-free in krb5 code (bsc#1005638)
- CVE-2016-8618: double-free in curl_maprintf (bsc#1005637)
- CVE-2016-8617: OOB write via unchecked multiplication (bsc#1005635)
- CVE-2016-8616: case insensitive password comparison (bsc#1005634)
- CVE-2016-8615: cookie injection for other servers (bsc#1005633)
- CVE-2016-7167: escape and unescape integer overflows (bsc#998760)
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"curl on openSUSE Leap 42.1");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_xref(name:"openSUSE-SU", value:"2016:2768-1");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'curl'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_family("SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/suse", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=openSUSELeap42\.1");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "openSUSELeap42.1") {
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"curl", rpm:"curl~7.37.0~16.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"curl-debuginfo", rpm:"curl-debuginfo~7.37.0~16.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"curl-debugsource", rpm:"curl-debugsource~7.37.0~16.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libcurl-devel", rpm:"libcurl-devel~7.37.0~16.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libcurl4", rpm:"libcurl4~7.37.0~16.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libcurl4-debuginfo", rpm:"libcurl4-debuginfo~7.37.0~16.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libcurl-devel-32bit", rpm:"libcurl-devel-32bit~7.37.0~16.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libcurl4-32bit", rpm:"libcurl4-32bit~7.37.0~16.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libcurl4-debuginfo-32bit", rpm:"libcurl4-debuginfo-32bit~7.37.0~16.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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