RHEL 9 : squid (RHSA-2023:6268)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 184204

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for squid.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6268 advisory.

- squid: Request/Response smuggling in HTTP/1.1 and ICAP (CVE-2023-46846)

- squid: Denial of Service in HTTP Digest Authentication (CVE-2023-46847)

- squid: denial of Service in FTP (CVE-2023-46848)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL squid package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:6268.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5d26fa59

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245910

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245916

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245919

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6268

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 184204

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6268.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/2/2023

Updated: 4/28/2024

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: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46846

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:N/I:L/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid

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: 11/2/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/2/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46846, CVE-2023-46847, CVE-2023-46848

CWE: 120, 444, 681

RHSA: 2023:6268