RockyLinux 8 : squid:4 (RLSA-2024:1375)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235552

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Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2024:1375 advisory.

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

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

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235552

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2024-1375.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/7/2025

Updated: 5/7/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, 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-2024-25617

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: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libecap-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libecap, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libecap-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libecap-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2023

Reference Information

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

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