RHEL 7 : squid (RHSA-2020:1068)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 135061

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for squid.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1068 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* squid: Incorrect pointer handling when processing ESI Responses can lead to denial of service (CVE-2018-1000024)

* squid: Incorrect pointer handling in HTTP processing and certificate download can lead to denial of service (CVE-2018-1000027)

* squid: XSS via user_name or auth parameter in cachemgr.cgi (CVE-2019-13345)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from 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.

Solution

Update the RHEL squid package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:1068.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 135061

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1068.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/1/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-13345

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid-migration-script, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid-sysvinit, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000024, CVE-2018-1000027, CVE-2019-13345

BID: 109095

CWE: 117, 20, 79

RHSA: 2020:1068

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