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Rocky Linux: CVE-2021-22922: curl (RLSA-2021-3582)

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Rocky Linux: CVE-2021-22922: curl (RLSA-2021-3582)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/05/2021
Created
03/13/2024
Added
03/12/2024
Modified
03/12/2024

Description

When curl is instructed to download content using the metalink feature, thecontents is verified against a hash provided in the metalink XML file.The metalink XML file points out to the client how to get the same contentfrom a set of different URLs, potentially hosted by different servers and theclient can then download the file from one or several of them. In a serial orparallel manner.If one of the servers hosting the contents has been breached and the contentsof the specific file on that server is replaced with a modified payload, curlshould detect this when the hash of the file mismatches after a completeddownload. It should remove the contents and instead try getting the contentsfrom another URL. This is not done, and instead such a hash mismatch is onlymentioned in text and the potentially malicious content is kept in the file ondisk.

Solution(s)

  • rocky-upgrade-curl
  • rocky-upgrade-curl-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-curl-debugsource
  • rocky-upgrade-libcurl
  • rocky-upgrade-libcurl-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-libcurl-devel
  • rocky-upgrade-libcurl-minimal
  • rocky-upgrade-libcurl-minimal-debuginfo

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