Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through 2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of Service attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the follow_x_forwarded_for feature is configured. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives.

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1787 advisory.

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Improper Validation of Specified Index bug, Squid versions     3.3.0.1 through 5.9 and 6.0 prior to 6.4 compiled using `--with-openssl` are vulnerable to a Denial of     Service attack against SSL Certificate validation. This problem allows a remote server to perform Denial     of Service against Squid Proxy by initiating a TLS Handshake with a specially crafted SSL Certificate in a     server certificate chain. This attack is limited to HTTPS and SSL-Bump. This bug is fixed in Squid version     6.4. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in Squid's patch     archives. Those who you use a prepackaged version of Squid should refer to the package vendor for     availability information on updated packages. (CVE-2023-46724)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a NULL pointer     dereference bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid's Gopher gateway. The     gopher protocol is always available and enabled in Squid prior to Squid 6.0.1. Responses triggering this     bug are possible to be received from any gopher server, even those without malicious intent. Gopher     support has been removed in Squid version 6.0.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade     should reject all gopher URL requests. (CVE-2023-46728)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a Buffer Overread bug     Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid HTTP Message processing. This bug is fixed     by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
    (CVE-2023-49285)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to an Incorrect Check of     Function Return Value bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against its Helper process     management. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known     workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2023-49286)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through     2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial     of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of     Service attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the follow_x_forwarded_for feature is     configured. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the     stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives. (CVE-2023-50269)

  - Squid is an open source caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a Collapse     of Data into Unsafe Value bug ,Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP header     parsing. This problem allows a remote client or a remote server to perform Denial of Service when sending     oversized headers in HTTP messages. In versions of Squid prior to 6.5 this can be achieved if the     request_header_max_size or reply_header_max_size settings are unchanged from the default. In Squid version     6.5 and later, the default setting of these parameters is safe. Squid will emit a critical warning in     cache.log if the administrator is setting these parameters to unsafe values. Squid will not at this time     prevent these settings from being changed to unsafe values. Users are advised to upgrade to version 6.5.
    There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. This issue is also tracked as SQUID-2024:2     (CVE-2024-25617)

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

An update of the squid package has been released.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6857-1 advisory.

    Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled requests with the urn: scheme. A remote attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-28651)

    It was discovered that Squid incorrectly handled SSPI and SMB authentication. A remote attacker could use     this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive     information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-41318)

    Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled HTTP message processing. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-49285)

    Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled Helper process management. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-49286)

    Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled HTTP request parsing. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

    (CVE-2023-50269, CVE-2024-25617)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-1787 advisory.

    - Resolves: CVE-2021-28651 squid: Bug 5104: Memory leak in RFC 2169 response parsing (#778)
    - Resolves: CVE-2021-28652 squid: Bug 5106: Broken cache manager URL parsing (#788)
    - Resolves: CVE-2021-31806,31807,31808 squid: Handle more Range requests (#790)
    - Resolves: CVE-2021-33620 squid: Handle more partial responses (#791)
    - Resolves: RHEL-16779 - squid: NULL pointer dereference in the gopher protocol       code -- Remove support for Gopher protocol (CVE-2023-46728)
    - Resolves: RHEL-18176 - squid: Buffer over-read in the HTTP Message processing       feature (CVE-2023-49285)
    - Resolves: RHEL-18171 - squid: Incorrect Check of Function Return Value In       Helper Process management (CVE-2023-49286)
    - Resolves: RHEL-16758 - squid: Denial of Service in SSL Certificate validation       (CVE-2023-46724)
    - Resolves: RHEL-19557 - squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing       (CVE-2023-50269)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1787 advisory.

    Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data     objects.

    Security Fix(es):

    * squid: denial of service in HTTP header parser (CVE-2024-25617)

    * squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing (CVE-2023-50269)

    * squid: Buffer over-read in the HTTP Message processing feature (CVE-2023-49285)

    * squid: Incorrect Check of Function Return Value In Helper Process management (CVE-2023-49286)

    * squid: NULL pointer dereference in the gopher protocol code (CVE-2023-46728)

    * squid: Denial of Service in SSL Certificate validation (CVE-2023-46724)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-1375 advisory.

    - Resolves: RHEL-19551 - squid:4/squid: denial of service in HTTP request       parsing (CVE-2023-50269)
    - Resolves: RHEL-28611 - squid:4/squid: Denial of Service in HTTP Chunked       Decoding (CVE-2024-25111)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-1376 advisory.

    - Resolves: RHEL-19555 - squid: denial of service in HTTP request       parsing (CVE-2023-50269)
    - Resolves: RHEL-28614 - squid: Denial of Service in HTTP Chunked       Decoding (CVE-2024-25111)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1376 advisory.

    Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data     objects.

    Security Fix(es):

    * squid: denial of service in HTTP header parser (CVE-2024-25617)

    * squid: Denial of Service in HTTP Chunked Decoding (CVE-2024-25111)

    * squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing (CVE-2023-50269)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1375 advisory.

    Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data     objects.

    Security Fix(es):

    * squid: denial of service in HTTP header parser (CVE-2024-25617)

    * squid: Denial of Service in HTTP Chunked Decoding (CVE-2024-25111)

    * squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing (CVE-2023-50269)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

According to the versions of the squid package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Improper Validation of Specified Index bug, Squid versions     3.3.0.1 through 5.9 and 6.0 prior to 6.4 compiled using `--with-openssl` are vulnerable to a Denial of     Service attack against SSL Certificate validation. This problem allows a remote server to perform Denial     of Service against Squid Proxy by initiating a TLS Handshake with a specially crafted SSL Certificate in a     server certificate chain. This attack is limited to HTTPS and SSL-Bump. This bug is fixed in Squid version     6.4. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in Squid's patch     archives. Those who you use a prepackaged version of Squid should refer to the package vendor for     availability information on updated packages. (CVE-2023-46724)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a NULL pointer     dereference bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid's Gopher gateway. The     gopher protocol is always available and enabled in Squid prior to Squid 6.0.1. Responses triggering this     bug are possible to be received from any gopher server, even those without malicious intent. Gopher     support has been removed in Squid version 6.0.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade     should reject all gopher URL requests. (CVE-2023-46728)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a Buffer Overread bug     Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid HTTP Message processing. This bug is fixed     by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
    (CVE-2023-49285)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to an Incorrect Check of     Function Return Value bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against its Helper process     management. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known     workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2023-49286)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through     2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial     of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of     Service attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the follow_x_forwarded_for feature is     configured. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the     stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives. (CVE-2023-50269)

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

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5637 advisory.

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Improper Validation of Specified Index bug, Squid versions     3.3.0.1 through 5.9 and 6.0 prior to 6.4 compiled using `--with-openssl` are vulnerable to a Denial of     Service attack against SSL Certificate validation. This problem allows a remote server to perform Denial     of Service against Squid Proxy by initiating a TLS Handshake with a specially crafted SSL Certificate in a     server certificate chain. This attack is limited to HTTPS and SSL-Bump. This bug is fixed in Squid version     6.4. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in Squid's patch     archives. Those who you use a prepackaged version of Squid should refer to the package vendor for     availability information on updated packages. (CVE-2023-46724)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a NULL pointer     dereference bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid's Gopher gateway. The     gopher protocol is always available and enabled in Squid prior to Squid 6.0.1. Responses triggering this     bug are possible to be received from any gopher server, even those without malicious intent. Gopher     support has been removed in Squid version 6.0.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade     should reject all gopher URL requests. (CVE-2023-46728)

  - SQUID is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by chunked decoder lenience, allows a remote     attacker to perform Request/Response smuggling past firewall and frontend security systems.
    (CVE-2023-46846)

  - Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service, where a remote attacker can perform buffer overflow attack by     writing up to 2 MB of arbitrary data to heap memory when Squid is configured to accept HTTP Digest     Authentication. (CVE-2023-46847)

  - Squid is vulnerable to Denial of Service, where a remote attacker can perform DoS by sending ftp:// URLs     in HTTP Request messages or constructing ftp:// URLs from FTP Native input. (CVE-2023-46848)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a Buffer Overread bug     Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid HTTP Message processing. This bug is fixed     by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
    (CVE-2023-49285)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to an Incorrect Check of     Function Return Value bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against its Helper process     management. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known     workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2023-49286)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through     2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial     of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of     Service attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the follow_x_forwarded_for feature is     configured. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the     stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives. (CVE-2023-50269)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an expired pointer reference bug, Squid prior to version 6.6     is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Cache Manager error responses. This problem allows a     trusted client to perform Denial of Service when generating error pages for Client Manager reports. Squid     older than 5.0.5 have not been tested and should be assumed to be vulnerable. All Squid-5.x up to and     including 5.9 are vulnerable. All Squid-6.x up to and including 6.5 are vulnerable. This bug is fixed by     Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in     Squid's patch archives. As a workaround, prevent access to Cache Manager using Squid's main access     control: `http_access deny manager`. (CVE-2024-23638)

  - Squid is a web proxy cache. Starting in version 3.5.27 and prior to version 6.8, Squid may be vulnerable     to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP Chunked decoder due to an uncontrolled recursion bug. This     problem allows a remote attacker to cause Denial of Service when sending a crafted, chunked, encoded HTTP     Message. This bug is fixed in Squid version 6.8. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the     stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives. There is no workaround for this issue.
    (CVE-2024-25111)

  - Squid is an open source caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a Collapse     of Data into Unsafe Value bug ,Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP header     parsing. This problem allows a remote client or a remote server to perform Denial of Service when sending     oversized headers in HTTP messages. In versions of Squid prior to 6.5 this can be achieved if the     request_header_max_size or reply_header_max_size settings are unchanged from the default. In Squid version     6.5 and later, the default setting of these parameters is safe. Squid will emit a critical warning in     cache.log if the administrator is setting these parameters to unsafe values. Squid will not at this time     prevent these settings from being changed to unsafe values. Users are advised to upgrade to version 6.5.
    There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. This issue is also tracked as SQUID-2024:2     (CVE-2024-25617)

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1153 advisory.

    Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, and HTTP data objects.

    Security Fix(es):

    * squid: DoS against HTTP and HTTPS (CVE-2023-5824)

    * squid: Denial of Service in SSL Certificate validation (CVE-2023-46724)

    * squid: NULL pointer dereference in the gopher protocol code (CVE-2023-46728)

    * squid: Buffer over-read in the HTTP Message processing feature (CVE-2023-49285)

    * squid: Incorrect Check of Function Return Value In Helper Process management (CVE-2023-49286)

    * squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing (CVE-2023-50269)

    Bug Fix(es):

    * squid crashes in assertion when a parent peer exists (RHEL-18248)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1085 advisory.

    Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data     objects.

    Security Fix(es):

    * squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing (CVE-2023-50269)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0455-1 advisory.

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through     2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial     of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of     Service attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the follow_x_forwarded_for feature is     configured. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the     stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives. (CVE-2023-50269)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an expired pointer reference bug, Squid prior to version 6.6     is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Cache Manager error responses. This problem allows a     trusted client to perform Denial of Service when generating error pages for Client Manager reports. Squid     older than 5.0.5 have not been tested and should be assumed to be vulnerable. All Squid-5.x up to and     including 5.9 are vulnerable. All Squid-6.x up to and including 6.5 are vulnerable. This bug is fixed by     Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in     Squid's patch archives. As a workaround, prevent access to Cache Manager using Squid's main access     control: `http_access deny manager`. (CVE-2024-23638)

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0771 advisory.

    Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, and HTTP data objects.

    Security Fix(es):

    * squid: DoS against HTTP and HTTPS (CVE-2023-5824)

    * squid: Denial of Service in SSL Certificate validation (CVE-2023-46724)

    * squid: NULL pointer dereference in the gopher protocol code (CVE-2023-46728)

    * squid: Buffer over-read in the HTTP Message processing feature (CVE-2023-49285)

    * squid: Incorrect Check of Function Return Value In Helper Process management (CVE-2023-49286)

    * squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing (CVE-2023-50269)

    Bug Fix(es):

    * squid crashes in assertion when a parent peer exists (RHEL-18255)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0773 advisory.

    Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, and HTTP data objects.

    Security Fix(es):

    * squid: DoS against HTTP and HTTPS (CVE-2023-5824)

    * squid: Denial of Service in SSL Certificate validation (CVE-2023-46724)

    * squid: NULL pointer dereference in the gopher protocol code (CVE-2023-46728)

    * squid: Buffer over-read in the HTTP Message processing feature (CVE-2023-49285)

    * squid: Incorrect Check of Function Return Value In Helper Process management (CVE-2023-49286)

    * squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing (CVE-2023-50269)

    Bug Fix(es):

    * squid crashes in assertion when a parent peer exists (RHEL-18254)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0772 advisory.

    Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, and HTTP data objects.

    Security Fix(es):

    * squid: DoS against HTTP and HTTPS (CVE-2023-5824)

    * squid: Denial of Service in SSL Certificate validation (CVE-2023-46724)

    * squid: NULL pointer dereference in the gopher protocol code (CVE-2023-46728)

    * squid: Buffer over-read in the HTTP Message processing feature (CVE-2023-49285)

    * squid: Incorrect Check of Function Return Value In Helper Process management (CVE-2023-49286)

    * squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing (CVE-2023-50269)

    Bug Fix(es):

    * squid crashes in assertion when a parent peer exists (RHEL-18253)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The version of squid installed on the remote host is prior to 3.5.20-17. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2445 advisory.

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through     2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial     of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of     Service attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the follow_x_forwarded_for feature is     configured. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the     stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives. (CVE-2023-50269)

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

The version of squid installed on the remote host is prior to 3.5.20-17.54. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2024-1916 advisory.

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through     2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial     of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of     Service attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the follow_x_forwarded_for feature is     configured. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the     stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives. (CVE-2023-50269)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0296-1 advisory.

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through     2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial     of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of     Service attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the follow_x_forwarded_for feature is     configured. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the     stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives. (CVE-2023-50269)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an expired pointer reference bug, Squid prior to version 6.6     is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Cache Manager error responses. This problem allows a     trusted client to perform Denial of Service when generating error pages for Client Manager reports. Squid     older than 5.0.5 have not been tested and should be assumed to be vulnerable. All Squid-5.x up to and     including 5.9 are vulnerable. All Squid-6.x up to and including 6.5 are vulnerable. This bug is fixed by     Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in     Squid's patch archives. As a workaround, prevent access to Cache Manager using Squid's main access     control: `http_access deny manager`. (CVE-2024-23638)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0298-1 advisory.

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through     2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial     of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of     Service attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the follow_x_forwarded_for feature is     configured. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the     stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives. (CVE-2023-50269)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an expired pointer reference bug, Squid prior to version 6.6     is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Cache Manager error responses. This problem allows a     trusted client to perform Denial of Service when generating error pages for Client Manager reports. Squid     older than 5.0.5 have not been tested and should be assumed to be vulnerable. All Squid-5.x up to and     including 5.9 are vulnerable. All Squid-6.x up to and including 6.5 are vulnerable. This bug is fixed by     Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in     Squid's patch archives. As a workaround, prevent access to Cache Manager using Squid's main access     control: `http_access deny manager`. (CVE-2024-23638)

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0397 advisory.

    Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, and HTTP data objects.

    Security Fix(es):

    * squid: DoS against HTTP and HTTPS (CVE-2023-5824)

    * squid: Denial of Service in SSL Certificate validation (CVE-2023-46724)

    * squid: NULL pointer dereference in the gopher protocol code (CVE-2023-46728)

    * squid: Buffer over-read in the HTTP Message processing feature (CVE-2023-49285)

    * squid: Incorrect Check of Function Return Value In Helper Process management (CVE-2023-49286)

    * squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing (CVE-2023-50269)

    Bug Fix(es):

    * squid crashes in assertion when a parent peer exists (JIRA:RHEL-18256)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6594-1 advisory.

    Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled HTTP message processing. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-49285)

    Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled Helper process management. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-49286)

    Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled HTTP request parsing. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-50269)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3709 advisory.

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a NULL pointer     dereference bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid's Gopher gateway. The     gopher protocol is always available and enabled in Squid prior to Squid 6.0.1. Responses triggering this     bug are possible to be received from any gopher server, even those without malicious intent. Gopher     support has been removed in Squid version 6.0.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade     should reject all gopher URL requests. (CVE-2023-46728)

  - SQUID is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by chunked decoder lenience, allows a remote     attacker to perform Request/Response smuggling past firewall and frontend security systems.
    (CVE-2023-46846)

  - Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service, where a remote attacker can perform buffer overflow attack by     writing up to 2 MB of arbitrary data to heap memory when Squid is configured to accept HTTP Digest     Authentication. (CVE-2023-46847)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a Buffer Overread bug     Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid HTTP Message processing. This bug is fixed     by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
    (CVE-2023-49285)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to an Incorrect Check of     Function Return Value bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against its Helper process     management. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known     workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2023-49286)

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through     2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial     of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of     Service attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the follow_x_forwarded_for feature is     configured. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the     stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives. (CVE-2023-50269)

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

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-467 advisory.

  - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through     2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial     of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of     Service attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the follow_x_forwarded_for feature is     configured. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the     stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives. (CVE-2023-50269)

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

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-6317eaa767 advisory.

    - New version 6.6
    - Important security fixes
    - Removed gopher support

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-ab77331a34 advisory.

    - New version 6.6
    - Important security fixes
    - Removed gopher support

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
208495	CentOS 7 : squid (RHSA-2024:1787)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
204636	Photon OS 3.0: Squid PHSA-2024-3.0-0707	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
204427	Photon OS 5.0: Squid PHSA-2024-5.0-0185	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
204425	Photon OS 4.0: Squid PHSA-2024-4.0-0538	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
201112	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Squid vulnerabilities (USN-6857-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
193259	Oracle Linux 7 : squid (ELSA-2024-1787)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
193230	RHEL 7 : squid (RHSA-2024:1787)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
192409	Oracle Linux 8 : squid:4 (ELSA-2024-1375)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
192315	Oracle Linux 9 : squid (ELSA-2024-1376)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
192264	RHEL 9 : squid (RHSA-2024:1376)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
192255	RHEL 8 : squid:4 (RHSA-2024:1375)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
191868	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : squid (EulerOS-SA-2024-1301)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
191759	Debian dsa-5637 : squid - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
191572	RHEL 9 : squid (RHSA-2024:1153)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
191538	RHEL 9 : squid (RHSA-2024:1085)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
190631	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : squid (SUSE-SU-2024:0455-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
190404	RHEL 8 : squid:4 (RHSA-2024:0771)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
190403	RHEL 8 : squid:4 (RHSA-2024:0773)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
190402	RHEL 8 : squid:4 (RHSA-2024:0772)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
190032	Amazon Linux 2 : squid (ALAS-2024-2445)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
190025	Amazon Linux AMI : squid (ALAS-2024-1916)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
189937	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : squid (SUSE-SU-2024:0296-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
189931	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : squid (SUSE-SU-2024:0298-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
189652	RHEL 8 : squid:4 (RHSA-2024:0397)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
189360	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : Squid vulnerabilities (USN-6594-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
189095	Debian dla-3709 : squid - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
187691	Amazon Linux 2023 : squid (ALAS2023-2024-467)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
187386	Fedora 38 : squid (2023-6317eaa767)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
187385	Fedora 39 : squid (2023-ab77331a34)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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