RHEL 2.1 / 3 / 4 / 5 : squid (RHSA-2008:0214)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31840

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated squid packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4 and 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for Web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects.

A flaw was found in the way squid manipulated HTTP headers for cached objects stored in system memory. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a squid child process to exit. This interrupted existing connections and made proxy services unavailable. Note: the parent squid process started a new child process, so this attack only resulted in a temporary denial of service. (CVE-2008-1612)

Users of squid are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.

Solution

Update the affected squid package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-1612

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0214

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31840

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2008-0214.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/11/2008

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/4/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6239, CVE-2008-1612

BID: 28693

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2008:0214