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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.704051
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4051-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'curl' package(s) announced via the DSA-4051-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'curl' package(s) announced via the DSA-4051-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library.

CVE-2017-8816

Alex Nichols discovered a buffer overrun flaw in the NTLM authentication code which can be triggered on 32bit systems where an integer overflow might occur when calculating the size of a memory allocation.

CVE-2017-8817

Fuzzing by the OSS-Fuzz project led to the discovery of a read out of bounds flaw in the FTP wildcard function in libcurl. A malicious server could redirect a libcurl-based client to an URL using a wildcard pattern, triggering the out-of-bound read.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 7.38.0-4+deb8u8.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 7.52.1-5+deb9u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.

For the detailed security status of curl please refer to its security tracker page at: [link moved to references]

Affected Software/OS:
'curl' package(s) on Debian 8, Debian 9.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8816
BugTraq ID: 101998
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101998
Debian Security Information: DSA-4051 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4051
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2018:3558
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039896
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040608
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8817
BugTraq ID: 102057
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102057
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00040.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039897
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