It was discovered that there was a buffer read overrun vulnerability in curl,
a tool for downloading files from the internet, etc.
If a
# Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH
# Text descriptions are largely excerpted from the referenced
# advisory, and are Copyright (C) of the respective author(s)
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.890883");
script_version("2020-01-29T08:22:52+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-7407");
script_name("Debian LTS: Security Advisory for curl (DLA-883-1)");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2020-01-29 08:22:52 +0000 (Wed, 29 Jan 2020)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2018-01-17 00:00:00 +0100 (Wed, 17 Jan 2018)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"2.1");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/04/msg00002.html");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH http://greenbone.net");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=DEB7");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"curl on Debian Linux");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in curl version
7.26.0-1+wheezy18+deb7u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"It was discovered that there was a buffer read overrun vulnerability in curl,
a tool for downloading files from the internet, etc.
If a '%' ended the --write-out parameter, the string's trailing NUL would be
skipped and memory past the end of the buffer could be accessed and potentially
displayed as part of the output.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
res = "";
report = "";
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"curl", ver:"7.26.0-1+wheezy18+deb7u1", rls:"DEB7"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libcurl3", ver:"7.26.0-1+wheezy18+deb7u1", rls:"DEB7"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libcurl3-dbg", ver:"7.26.0-1+wheezy18+deb7u1", rls:"DEB7"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libcurl3-gnutls", ver:"7.26.0-1+wheezy18+deb7u1", rls:"DEB7"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libcurl3-nss", ver:"7.26.0-1+wheezy18+deb7u1", rls:"DEB7"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libcurl4-gnutls-dev", ver:"7.26.0-1+wheezy18+deb7u1", rls:"DEB7"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libcurl4-nss-dev", ver:"7.26.0-1+wheezy18+deb7u1", rls:"DEB7"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libcurl4-openssl-dev", ver:"7.26.0-1+wheezy18+deb7u1", rls:"DEB7"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}