RHEL 8 : squid:4 (RHSA-2024:0773)

high Nessus Plugin ID 190403

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for squid:4.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0773 advisory.

- 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)

- squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing (CVE-2023-50269)

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:4 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:0773.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 190403

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-0773.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 2/12/2024

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5824

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libecap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libecap-devel, 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: 2/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46724, CVE-2023-46728, CVE-2023-49285, CVE-2023-49286, CVE-2023-50269, CVE-2023-5824

CWE: 126, 476, 617, 674, 755, 823

RHSA: 2024:0773

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