The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0072 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * squid: DoS against HTTP and HTTPS (CVE-2023-5824)

    * squid: Denial of Service in SSL Certificate validation (CVE-2023-46724)

    * squid: NULL pointer dereference in the gopher protocol code (CVE-2023-46728)

    * squid: Buffer over-read in the HTTP Message processing feature (CVE-2023-49285)

    * squid: Incorrect Check of Function Return Value In Helper Process management (CVE-2023-49286)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

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RHEL 9 : squid (RHSA-2024:0072)

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