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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Squid vulnerabilities (USN-3557-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106619

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3557-1 advisory.

 Mathias Fischer discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain long strings in headers. A malicious remote server could possibly cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-2569)

 William Lima discovered that Squid incorrectly handled XML parsing when processing Edge Side Includes (ESI). A malicious remote server could possibly cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
 This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-2570)

 Alex Rousskov discovered that Squid incorrectly handled response-parsing failures. A malicious remote server could possibly cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-2571)

 Santiago Ruano Rincn discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain Vary headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-3948)

 Louis Dion-Marcil discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain Edge Side Includes (ESI) responses. A malicious remote server could possibly cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
 (CVE-2018-1000024)

 Louis Dion-Marcil discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain Edge Side Includes (ESI) responses. A malicious remote server could possibly cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
 (CVE-2018-1000027)

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3557-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106619

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3557-1.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/6/2018

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000027

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-cgi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-purge, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squidclient, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid3-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2569, CVE-2016-2570, CVE-2016-2571, CVE-2016-3948, CVE-2018-1000024, CVE-2018-1000027

USN: 3557-1