Debian DSA-5171-1 : squid - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 162562

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 10 / 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5171 advisory.

- Squid through 4.14 and 5.x through 5.0.5, in some configurations, allows information disclosure because of an out-of-bounds read in WCCP protocol data. This can be leveraged as part of a chain for remote code execution as nobody. (CVE-2021-28116)

- In Squid 3.x through 3.5.28, 4.x through 4.17, and 5.x before 5.6, due to improper buffer management, a Denial of Service can occur when processing long Gopher server responses. (CVE-2021-46784)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the squid packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 4.13-10+deb11u1.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/squid

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5171

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-28116

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-46784

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/squid

https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/squid

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 162562

File Name: debian_DSA-5171.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/28/2022

Updated: 3/21/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28116

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid-cgi, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid-openssl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid-purge, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squidclient, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/27/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28116, CVE-2021-46784