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GLSA-200410-15 : Squid: Remote DoS vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15512

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200410-15 (Squid: Remote DoS vulnerability)

 A parsing error exists in the SNMP module of Squid where a specially crafted UDP packet can potentially cause the server to restart, closing all current connections. This vulnerability only exists in versions of Squid compiled with the 'snmp' USE flag.
 Impact :

 An attacker can repeatedly send these malicious UDP packets to the Squid server, leading to a denial of service.
 Workaround :

 Disable SNMP support or filter the port that has SNMP processing (default is 3401) to allow only SNMP data from trusted hosts.
 To disable SNMP support put the entry snmp_port 0 in the squid.conf configuration file.
 To allow only the local interface to process SNMP, add the entry 'snmp_incoming_address 127.0.0.1' in the squid.conf configuration file.

Solution

All Squid users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge sync # emerge -pv '>=net-proxy/squid-2.5.7' # emerge '>=net-proxy/squid-2.5.7'

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d34310cf

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200410-15

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15512

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200410-15.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Published: 10/19/2004

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:squid, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/5/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0918

CWE: 399

GLSA: 200410-15