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Debian DSA-1843-1 : squid3 - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44708

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that squid3, a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, is prone to several denial of service attacks. Due to incorrect bounds checking and insufficient validation while processing response and request data an attacker is able to crash the squid daemon via crafted requests or responses.

The squid package in the oldstable distribution (etch) is not affected by this problem.

Solution

Upgrade the squid3 packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538989

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1843

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44708

File Name: debian_DSA-1843.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid3, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2009

Reference Information

BID: 35812

DSA: 1843