Squid 3.x < 3.3.13 / 3.4.7 Request Processing DoS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 77985

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Synopsis

The remote proxy server is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

According to its banner, the version of Squid running on the remote host is 3.x prior to 3.3.13 or 3.4.7. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

The flaw exists due to user-supplied input not being properly validated in request parsing. This allows a remote attacker to specially craft a request with Range headers with unidentifiable byte-range values to crash the application.

Note that Nessus has relied only on the version in the proxy server's banner. The patch released to address the issue does not update the version in the banner. If the patch has been applied properly, and the service has been restarted, consider this to be a false positive.

Solution

Upgrade to Squid version 3.3.13 / 3.4.7 or later, or apply the vendor-supplied patch.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 77985

File Name: squid_3_4_7.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: remote

Family: Firewalls

Published: 9/30/2014

Updated: 7/30/2018

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:squid-cache:squid

Required KB Items: Settings/ParanoidReport, www/squid

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/28/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/28/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3609

BID: 69453

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