RHEL 9 : squid (RHSA-2024:1376)

high Nessus Plugin ID 192264

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-2024:1376 advisory.

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

- squid: Denial of Service in HTTP Chunked Decoding (CVE-2024-25111)

- squid: denial of service in HTTP header parser (CVE-2024-25617)

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-2024:1376.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?cba49bba

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254663

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2264309

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2268366

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1376

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 192264

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-1376.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/19/2024

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: 5.2

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-2023-50269

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:enterprise_linux:9, 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: 3/19/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-50269, CVE-2024-25111, CVE-2024-25617

CWE: 400, 674

RHSA: 2024:1376