RHEL 7 : squid (RHSA-2024:1787)

high Nessus Plugin ID 193230

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1787 advisory.

- 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)

- 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-2024:1787.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247567

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248521

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2252923

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2252926

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?e1017988

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1787

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 193230

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-1787.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/11/2024

Updated: 4/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid-migration-script, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid-sysvinit

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: 4/11/2024

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-2024-25617

CWE: 126, 400, 476, 617, 674, 823

RHSA: 2024:1787