RHEL 2.1 : squid (RHSA-2002:130)

high Nessus Plugin ID 12308

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

New Squid packages are available which fix various issues.

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server. The following summary describes the various issues found and fixed :

Several buffer overflows have been found in the MSTN auth helper (msnt_auth) when configured to use denyusers or allowusers access control files.

Several buffer overflows were found in the gopher client of Squid. It could be possible for a malicious gopher server to cause Squid to crash.

A problem was found in the handling of the FTP data channel, possibly allowing abuse of the FTP proxy to bypass firewall rules or inject false FTP replies.

Several possible buffer overflows were found in the code parsing FTP directories, which potentially allow for an untrusted FTP server to crash Squid.

Thanks go to Olaf Kirch and the Squid team for notifying us of the problems and to the Squid team for providing patches.

All users of Squid are advised to upgrade to these errata packages which contain patches to correct each of these issues.

Solution

Update the affected squid package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 12308

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2002-130.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/6/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 7/9/2002

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-0713, CVE-2002-0714, CVE-2002-0715

RHSA: 2002:130

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