Debian DLA-1596-1 : squid3 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119153

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there can be a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in squid3 due to a memory leak in SNMP query rejection code when SNMP is enabled. In environments where per-process memory restrictions are not enforced strictly, a remote attacker to consume all memory available to the Squid process, causing it to crash.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 3.4.8-6+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your squid3 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119153

File Name: debian_DLA-1596.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/27/2018

Updated: 3/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-19132

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid-cgi, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid3-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid-purge, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid3-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid3, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squidclient

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19132

Detections

Analytics