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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Curl affect PowerSC

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Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in Curl that affect PowerSC. PowerSC uses Curl as part of PowerSC Trusted Network Connect (TNC).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2023-38039
DESCRIPTION:   cURL libcurl is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by not limiting the number and size of headers accept in a response. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to run out of heap memory, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/265946 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-38546
DESCRIPTION:   cURL libcurl could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw in the curl_easy_duphandle function if a transfer has cookies enabled when the handle is duplicated. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to insert cookies at will into a running program.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268046 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-38545
DESCRIPTION:   libcurl and cURL are vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by the improper handling of hostnames longer than 255 bytes during a slow SOCKS5 proxy handshake. By sending an overly long argument, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268045 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
PowerSC1.3, 2.0, 2.1

 

The vulnerabilities in the following filesets are being addressed:

FilesetLower LevelUpper Level
powerscStd.tnc_pm1.3.0.42.1.0.6
curl-8.2.1-1.aix7.1.ppc.rpm7.19.48.2.1

 

Note:  To find out whether the affected PowerSC filesets are installed on your systems, refer to the lslpp command found in AIX user's guide. To find out whether the affected curl filesets are installed on your systems, refer to the rpm command found in AIX user's guide.

 

Example:  lslpp -l | grep powerscStd

Example:  rpm -qa | grep curl

 

Remediation/Fixes

FIXES

 

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.

 

Fixes are available and can be downloaded via yum.

To install any dependencies along with the fix package:

 

yum update curl

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

20 Dec 2023: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Location

Worldwide


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Document Information

More support for:
PowerSC Standard Edition

Software version:
All

Operating system(s):
AIX

Document number:
7100972

Modified date:
20 December 2023

UID

ibm17100972

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