RHSA-2024:1601 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for curl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The curl packages provide the libcurl library and the curl utility for downloading files from servers using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP.

Security Fix(es):

• curl: information disclosure by exploiting a mixed case flaw (CVE-2023-46218)
• curl: more POST-after-PUT confusion (CVE-2023-28322)
• curl: cookie injection with none file (CVE-2023-38546)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

• libssh (curl sftp) not trying password auth (BZ#2240033)
• libssh: cap SFTP packet size sent (RHEL-5485)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2196793 - CVE-2023-28322 curl: more POST-after-PUT confusion
• BZ - 2240033 - libssh (curl sftp) not trying password auth [rhel-8.9.0.z]
• BZ - 2241938 - CVE-2023-38546 curl: cookie injection with none file
• BZ - 2252030 - CVE-2023-46218 curl: information disclosure by exploiting a mixed case flaw

CVEs

• CVE-2023-28322
• CVE-2023-38546
• CVE-2023-46218

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate