Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : squid vulnerabilities (USN-414-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 28003

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

David Duncan Ross Palmer and Henrik Nordstrom discovered that squid incorrectly handled special characters in FTP URLs. Remote users with access to squid could crash the server leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2007-0247)

Erick Dantas Rotole and Henrik Nordstrom discovered that squid could end up in an endless loop when exhausted of available external ACL helpers. Remote users with access to squid could cause CPU starvation, possibly leading to a denial of service. This does not affect a default Ubuntu installation, since external ACL helpers must be configured and used. (CVE-2007-0248).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/414-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 28003

File Name: ubuntu_USN-414-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-cgi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squidclient, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/24/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0247, CVE-2007-0248

BID: 22079, 22203

CWE: 399

USN: 414-1