An updated Squid package that fixes several security issues is now available.

Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Gopher relay parser. This bug could allow a remote Gopher server to crash the Squid proxy that reads data from it. Although Gopher servers are now quite rare, a malicious web page (for example) could redirect or contain a frame pointing to an attacker's malicious gopher server. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0094 to this issue.

An integer overflow flaw was found in the WCCP message parser. It is possible to crash the Squid server if an attacker is able to send a malformed WCCP message with a spoofed source address matching Squid's 'home router'. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0095 to this issue.

A memory leak was found in the NTLM fakeauth_auth helper. It is possible that an attacker could place the Squid server under high load, causing the NTML fakeauth_auth helper to consume a large amount of memory, resulting in a denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0096 to this issue.

A NULL pointer de-reference bug was found in the NTLM fakeauth_auth helper. It is possible for an attacker to send a malformed NTLM type 3 message, causing the Squid server to crash. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0097 to this issue.

A username validation bug was found in squid_ldap_auth. It is possible for a username to be padded with spaces, which could allow a user to bypass explicit access control rules or confuse accounting. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0173 to this issue.

The way Squid handles HTTP responses was found to need strengthening.
It is possible that a malicious web server could send a series of HTTP responses in such a way that the Squid cache could be poisoned, presenting users with incorrect webpages. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the names CVE-2005-0174 and CVE-2005-0175 to these issues.

A bug was found in the way Squid handled oversized HTTP response headers. It is possible that a malicious web server could send a specially crafted HTTP header which could cause the Squid cache to be poisoned, presenting users with incorrect webpages. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0241 to this issue.

A buffer overflow bug was found in the WCCP message parser. It is possible that an attacker could send a malformed WCCP message which could crash the Squid server or execute arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0211 to this issue.

Users of Squid should upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches, and is not vulnerable to these issues.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2005:060 advisory.

  - security flaw (CVE-2005-0094, CVE-2005-0095, CVE-2005-0096, CVE-2005-0097, CVE-2005-0173, CVE-2005-0174,     CVE-2005-0175, CVE-2005-0211, CVE-2005-0241)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

More vulnerabilities were discovered in the squid server :

The LDAP handling of search filters was inadequate which could be abused to allow logins using severial variants of a single login name, possibly bypassing explicit access controls (CVE-2005-0173).

Minor problems in the HTTP header parsing code that could be used for cache poisoning (CVE-2005-0174 and CVE-2005-0175).

A buffer overflow in the WCCP handling code allowed remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service and could potentially allow for the execution of arbitrary code by using a long WCCP packet.

The updated packages have been patched to prevent these problems.

A possible authentication bypass was discovered in the LDAP authentication backend. LDAP ignores leading and trailing whitespace in search filters. This could possibly be abused to bypass explicit access controls or confuse accounting when using several variants of the login name. (CAN-2005-0173)

Previous Squid versions were not strict enough while parsing HTTP requests and responses. Various violations of the HTTP protocol, such as multiple Content-Length header lines, invalid 'Carriage Return' characters, and HTTP header names containing whitespace, led to cache pollution and could possibly be exploited to deliver wrong content to clients. (CAN-2005-0174)

Squid was susceptible to a cache poisoning attack called 'HTTP response splitting', where false replies are injected in the HTTP stream. This allowed malicious web servers to forge wrong cache content for arbitrary websites, which was then delivered to Squid clients. (CAN-2005-0175)

The FSC Vulnerability Research Team discovered a buffer overflow in the WCCP handling protocol. By sending an overly large WCCP packet, a remote attacker could crash the Squid server, and possibly even execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the 'proxy' user.
(CAN-2005-0211).

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.

According to its version number, the remote Squid caching proxy is affected by several security flaws :

  - There is a buffer overflow when handling the reply of a     rogue gopher site. (CVE-2005-0094)

  - There is a denial of service vulnerability in the WCCP     code of the remote proxy. (CVE-2005-0095)

  - There is a buffer overflow in the WCCP code that may     allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the     remote host. (CVE-2005-0211)

  - There is a flaw in the 'squid_ldap_auth' module that may     allow an attacker to bypass authentication and to gain     access to the remote proxy. (CVE-2005-0173)

  - There is a flaw in the way Squid parses HTTP reply     headers. (CVE-2005-0241)

  - There is a weakness that may allow for cache poisoning     via     HTTP response splitting. (CVE-2005-0175)

  - There is a weakness that may allow for cache poisoning     via     crafted malformed headers. (CVE-2005-0174)

Note that this may be a false-positive given the way the Squid team handles releases. Make sure that all the appropriate patches have been applied.

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2005:006 (squid).


Squid is a feature-rich web-proxy with support for various web-related protocols.
The last two squid updates from February the 1st and 10th fix several vulnerabilities. The impact of them range from remote denial-of-service over cache poisoning to possible remote command execution.
Due to the hugh amount of bugs the vulnerabilities are just summarized here.

CVE-2005-0094 A buffer overflow in the Gopher responses parser leads to memory corruption and usually crash squid.

CVE-2005-0095 An integer overflow in the receiver of WCCP (Web Cache Communication Protocol) messages can be exploited remotely by sending a specially crafted UDP datagram to crash squid.

CVE-2005-0096 A memory leak in the NTLM fakeauth_auth helper for Squid 2.5.STABLE7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service due to uncontrolled memory consumption.

CVE-2005-0097 The NTLM component in Squid 2.5.STABLE7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a crash od squid by sending a malformed NTLM message. 

CVE-2005-0173 LDAP handles search filters very laxly. This behaviour can be abused to log in using several variants of a login name, possibly bypassing explicit access controls or confusing accounting.

CVE-2005-0175 and CVE-2005-0174 Minor problems in the HTTP header parsing code that can be used for cache poisoning.

CVE-2005-0211 A buffer overflow in the WCCP handling code in Squid 2.5 before 2.5.STABLE7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service and possibly execute arbitrary code by using a long WCCP packet.

CVE-2005-0241 The httpProcessReplyHeader function in Squid 2.5-STABLE7 and earlier does not properly set the debug context when it is handling 'oversized' HTTP reply headers. The impact is unknown.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Squid, the internet object cache, the popular WWW proxy cache. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities :

  - CAN-2005-0173     LDAP is very forgiving about spaces in search filters     and this could be abused to log in using several     variants of the login name, possibly bypassing explicit     access controls or confusing accounting.

  - CAN-2005-0175

    Cache pollution/poisoning via HTTP response splitting     has been discovered.

  - CAN-2005-0194

    The meaning of the access controls becomes somewhat     confusing if any of the referenced ACLs (access control     lists) is declared empty, without any members.

  - CAN-2005-0211

    The length argument of the WCCP recvfrom() call is     larger than it should be. An attacker may send a larger     than normal WCCP packet that could overflow a buffer.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200502-04 (Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Squid contains several vulnerabilities:
    Buffer overflow when handling WCCP recvfrom()     (CAN-2005-0211).
    Loose checking of HTTP headers (CAN-2005-0173 and     CAN-2005-0174).
    Incorrect handling of LDAP login names with spaces     (CAN-2005-0175).
  Impact :

    An attacker could exploit:
    the WCCP buffer overflow to cause Denial of Service.
    the HTTP header parsing vulnerabilities to inject arbitrary     response data, potentially leading to content spoofing, web cache     poisoning and other cross-site scripting or HTTP response splitting     attacks.
    the LDAP issue to login with several variations of the same login     name, leading to log poisoning.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

According to the Squid Proxy Cache Security Update Advisory SQUID-2005:3,

The WCCP recvfrom() call accepts more data than will fit in the allocated buffer. An attacker may send a larger-than-normal WCCP message to Squid and overflow this buffer.

Severity :

The bug is important because it allows remote attackers to crash Squid, causing a disription in service. However, the bug is exploitable only if you have configured Squid to send WCCP messages to, and expect WCCP replies from, a router.

Sites that do not use WCCP are not vulnerable.

Note that while the default configuration of the FreeBSD squid port enables WCCP support in general, the default configuration supplied does not actually configure squid to send and receive WCCP messages.

The remote Squid caching proxy, according to its version number, may be vulnerable to a remote denial of service.

This flaw is caused due to an input validation error in the NTLM module.

An attacker can exploit this flaw to crash the server with a specially crafted packet.

The remote Squid proxy is also vulnerable to a cache-corruption flaw due to incorrect parsing of malformed HTTP headers. An attacker exploiting this flaw would be able to poison the cache.

The remote Squid proxy is vulnerable to an authentication bypass
in the squid_ldap_auth module as well as a remote overflow due to oversized HTTP headers. 

The remote Squid caching proxy, according to its version number, is vulnerable to several security flaws :

- There is a buffer overflow issue when handling the reply of a rogue gopher site. To exploit this issue, an attacker would need to use the remote proxy to visit a specially setup gopher site generating malformed replies 

- There is a denial of service vulnerability in the WCCP code of the remote proxy. To exploit this flaw, an attacker would need to guess the IP of the WCCP router used by the proxy and spoof a malformed UDP packet using the router IP address.  There are several flaws in the way that the Squid proxy caches pages.
An attacker exploiting these flaws would be able to poison the Squid
cache. 

The remote Squid caching proxy, according to its version number, may be vulnerable to a remote denial of service.

This flaw is caused due to an input validation error in the NTLM module.

An attacker can exploit this flaw to crash the server with a specially crafted packet.

The remote Squid proxy is also vulnerable to a cache-corruption flaw due to incorrect parsing of malformed HTTP headers. An attacker exploiting this flaw would be able to poison the cache.

The remote Squid proxy is vulnerable to an authentication bypass
in the squid_ldap_auth module as well as a remote overflow due to oversized HTTP headers.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
16384	RHEL 2.1 / 3 : squid (RHSA-2005:061)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	2/14/2005	1/14/2021	high
17176	RHEL 4 : squid (RHSA-2005:060)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	2/22/2005	4/21/2024	high
16377	Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : squid (MDKSA-2005:034)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	2/11/2005	1/6/2021	high
20699	Ubuntu 4.10 : squid vulnerabilities (USN-77-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	1/15/2006	1/19/2021	high
16190	Squid < 2.5.STABLE8 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Firewalls	1/18/2005	7/30/2018	high
16372	SUSE-SA:2005:006: squid	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	2/10/2005	1/14/2021	high
16341	Debian DSA-667-1 : squid - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	2/10/2005	1/4/2021	critical
16441	GLSA-200502-04 : Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	2/14/2005	1/6/2021	high
18872	FreeBSD : squid -- buffer overflow in WCCP recvfrom() call (23fb5a04-722b-11d9-9e1e-c296ac722cb3)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	7/13/2005	1/6/2021	high
2520	Squid < 2.5.STABLE8 DoS	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Servers	1/21/2005	3/6/2019	medium
2537	Squid < 2.5.STABLE8 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Servers	1/19/2005	3/6/2019	medium
801039	Squid Proxy < 2.5.STABLE8 Gopher, WCCP, and Cache Poisoning Vulnerabilities	Log Correlation Engine	Web Servers			high
801048	Squid Proxy < 2.5.STABLE8 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Log Correlation Engine	Web Servers			low

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