The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2230-1 advisory.
A denial of service vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 in the way libcurl provides several different backends for resolving host names, selected at build time. If it is built to use the synchronous resolver, it allows name resolves to time-out slow operations using alarm()
and siglongjmp()
. When doing this, libcurl used a global buffer that was not mutex protected and a multi-threaded application might therefore crash or otherwise misbehave. (CVE-2023-28320)
An improper certificate validation vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 in the way it supports matching of wildcard patterns when listed as Subject Alternative Name in TLS server certificates. curl can be built to use its own name matching function for TLS rather than one provided by a TLS library. This private wildcard matching function would match IDN (International Domain Name) hosts incorrectly and could as a result accept patterns that otherwise should mismatch. IDN hostnames are converted to puny code before used for certificate checks. Puny coded names always start with xn--
and should not be allowed to pattern match, but the wildcard check in curl could still check for x*
, which would match even though the IDN name most likely contained nothing even resembling an x
. (CVE-2023-28321)
An information disclosure vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 when doing HTTP(S) transfers, libcurl might erroneously use the read callback (CURLOPT_READFUNCTION
) to ask for data to send, even when the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS
option has been set, if the same handle previously wasused to issue a PUT
request which used that callback. This flaw may surprise the application and cause it to misbehave and either send off the wrong data or use memory after free or similar in the second transfer. The problem exists in the logic for a reused handle when it is (expected to be) changed from a PUT to a POST. (CVE-2023-28322)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2023:2230-1. The text itself
# is copyright (C) SUSE.
##
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(176045);
script_version("1.6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/07/20");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-28320", "CVE-2023-28321", "CVE-2023-28322");
script_xref(name:"SuSE", value:"SUSE-SU-2023:2230-1");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2023-A-0259-S");
script_name(english:"SUSE SLES12 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2023:2230-1)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in
the SUSE-SU-2023:2230-1 advisory.
- A denial of service vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 in the way libcurl provides several different
backends for resolving host names, selected at build time. If it is built to use the synchronous resolver,
it allows name resolves to time-out slow operations using `alarm()` and `siglongjmp()`. When doing this,
libcurl used a global buffer that was not mutex protected and a multi-threaded application might therefore
crash or otherwise misbehave. (CVE-2023-28320)
- An improper certificate validation vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 in the way it supports matching of
wildcard patterns when listed as Subject Alternative Name in TLS server certificates. curl can be built
to use its own name matching function for TLS rather than one provided by a TLS library. This private
wildcard matching function would match IDN (International Domain Name) hosts incorrectly and could as a
result accept patterns that otherwise should mismatch. IDN hostnames are converted to puny code before
used for certificate checks. Puny coded names always start with `xn--` and should not be allowed to
pattern match, but the wildcard check in curl could still check for `x*`, which would match even though
the IDN name most likely contained nothing even resembling an `x`. (CVE-2023-28321)
- An information disclosure vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 when doing HTTP(S) transfers, libcurl might
erroneously use the read callback (`CURLOPT_READFUNCTION`) to ask for data to send, even when the
`CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS` option has been set, if the same handle previously wasused to issue a `PUT` request
which used that callback. This flaw may surprise the application and cause it to misbehave and either send
off the wrong data or use memory after free or similar in the second transfer. The problem exists in the
logic for a reused handle when it is (expected to be) changed from a PUT to a POST. (CVE-2023-28322)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211231");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211232");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211233");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211339");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2023-May/029436.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28320");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28321");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28322");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected curl, libcurl4 and / or libcurl4-32bit packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-28321");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/05/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/05/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/05/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:curl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4-32bit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || os_release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'SUSE');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLES12)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'SUSE SLES12', 'SUSE (' + os_ver + ')');
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'SUSE (' + os_ver + ')', cpu);
var service_pack = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(service_pack)) service_pack = "0";
if (os_ver == "SLES12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(2)$", string:service_pack))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES12 SP2", os_ver + " SP" + service_pack);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'curl-7.37.0-37.98.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']},
{'reference':'libcurl4-32bit-7.37.0-37.98.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']},
{'reference':'libcurl4-7.37.0-37.98.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']}
];
var ltss_caveat_required = FALSE;
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var exists_check = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (reference && _release) {
if (exists_check) {
var check_flag = 0;
foreach var check (exists_check) {
if (!rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:check)) continue;
check_flag++;
}
if (!check_flag) continue;
}
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'curl / libcurl4 / libcurl4-32bit');
}
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-28320
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-28321
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-28322
bugzilla.suse.com/1211231
bugzilla.suse.com/1211232
bugzilla.suse.com/1211233
bugzilla.suse.com/1211339
lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2023-May/029436.html
www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28320
www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28321
www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28322