Amazon Linux AMI update for curl

Published: 2014-09-18

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2014-3613 CVE-2014-3620
CWE-ID	CWE-310
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software	Amazon Linux AMI Operating systems & Components / Operating system
Vendor	Amazon Web Services

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Cryptographic issues

EUVDB-ID: #VU41097

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 2.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3613

CWE-ID: CWE-310 - Cryptographic Issues

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.

cURL and libcurl before 7.38.0 does not properly handle IP addresses in cookie domain names, which allows remote attackers to set cookies for or send arbitrary cookies to certain sites, as demonstrated by a site at 192.168.0.1 setting cookies for a site at 127.168.0.1.

Mitigation

Update the affected packages:

i686:
    libcurl-7.38.0-1.46.amzn1.i686
    libcurl-devel-7.38.0-1.46.amzn1.i686
    curl-debuginfo-7.38.0-1.46.amzn1.i686
    curl-7.38.0-1.46.amzn1.i686

src:
    curl-7.38.0-1.46.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    libcurl-devel-7.38.0-1.46.amzn1.x86_64
    curl-debuginfo-7.38.0-1.46.amzn1.x86_64
    libcurl-7.38.0-1.46.amzn1.x86_64
    curl-7.38.0-1.46.amzn1.x86_64

Vulnerable software versions

Amazon Linux AMI: All versions

CPE2.3

cpe:2.3:o:amazon_web_services:amazon_linux_ami:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-407.html

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) Cryptographic issues

EUVDB-ID: #VU41096