Amazon Linux AMI : squid (ALAS-2014-433)
High Nessus Plugin ID 78658
Synopsis
The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
Description
A flaw was found in the way Squid handled malformed HTTP Range headers. A remote attacker able to send HTTP requests to the Squid proxy could use this flaw to crash Squid. (CVE-2014-3609)
A buffer overflow flaw was found in Squid's DNS lookup module. A remote attacker able to send HTTP requests to the Squid proxy could use this flaw to crash Squid. (CVE-2013-4115)
Squid 3.1 before 3.3.12 and 3.4 before 3.4.4, when SSL-Bump is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via a crafted range request, related to state management. (CVE-2014-0128)
Solution
Run 'yum update squid' to update your system.