Photon OS 5.0: Curl PHSA-2026-5.0-90-0951

An update of the curl package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2026-5.0-90-0951. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

CVE-2026-11586

By default, curl automatically responds to WebSocket PING frames. Because curl lacks an upper bound on memory allocation for unacknowledged frames, a malicious server can exhaust all available memory by flooding curl with rapid, sequential PING messages...

Curl 8.16.0 < 8.21.0 WebSocket Auto-PONG Memory Exhaustion

The version of curl installed on the remote host is 8.16.0 prior to 8.21.0. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability: - Because curl lacks an upper bound on memory allocation for unacknowledged WebSocket frames, a malicious server can exhaust all available memory by floodin...