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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.702713
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2713-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'curl' package(s) announced via the DSA-2713-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'curl' package(s) announced via the DSA-2713-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Timo Sirainen discovered that cURL, an URL transfer library, is prone to a heap overflow vulnerability due to bad checking of the input data in the curl_easy_unescape function.

The curl command line tool is not affected by this problem as it doesn't use the curl_easy_unescape function.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze4.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 7.26.0-1+wheezy3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 7.31.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'curl' package(s) on Debian 6, Debian 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-2174
BugTraq ID: 60737
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60737
Debian Security Information: DSA-2713 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2713
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2013:0983
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0983.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2013:1133 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00013.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1894-1
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2013 Greenbone AG

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