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FreeBSD : squid -- remote denial of service vulnerability (9c2460a4-f6b1-11dd-94d9-0030843d3802)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35626

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Squid security advisory 2009:1 reports :

Due to an internal error Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests.

This problem allows any client to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2009_1.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?7b359d70

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35626

File Name: freebsd_pkg_9c2460a4f6b111dd94d90030843d3802.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 2/9/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

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:freebsd:freebsd:squid, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0478

CWE: 20

Secunia: 33731