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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0135: squid:4 (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0135)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 236673

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2023:0135 advisory.

 Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

 CVE-2023-46846:
 SQUID is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by chunked decoder lenience, allows a remote attacker to perform Request/Response smuggling past firewall and frontend security systems.

 CVE-2023-46847:
 Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service, where a remote attacker can perform buffer overflow attack by writing up to 2 MB of arbitrary data to heap memory when Squid is configured to accept HTTP Digest Authentication.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud 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.

Solution

Update the affected squid, squid-debuginfo and / or squid-debugsource packages.

See Also

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20230135.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 236673

File Name: alinux3_sa_2023-0135.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46846

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:squid, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:squid-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:squid-debuginfo, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46846, CVE-2023-46847