RHEL 8 : squid:4 (RHSA-2020:4743)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 142412

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4743 advisory.

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

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: squid (4.11). (BZ#1829467)

Security Fix(es):

* squid: Improper input validation in request allows for proxy manipulation (CVE-2019-12520)

* squid: Off-by-one error in addStackElement allows for heap buffer overflow and crash (CVE-2019-12521)

* squid: Improper input validation in URI processor (CVE-2019-12523)

* squid: Improper access restriction in url_regex may lead to security bypass (CVE-2019-12524)

* squid: Heap overflow issue in URN processing (CVE-2019-12526)

* squid: Information Disclosure issue in FTP Gateway (CVE-2019-12528)

* squid: Out of bounds read in Proxy-Authorization header causes DoS (CVE-2019-12529)

* squid: Denial of service in cachemgr.cgi (CVE-2019-12854)

* squid: Buffer overflow in URI processor (CVE-2019-18676)

* squid: Cross-Site Request Forgery issue in HTTP Request processing (CVE-2019-18677)

* squid: HTTP Request Splitting issue in HTTP message processing (CVE-2019-18678)

* squid: Information Disclosure issue in HTTP Digest Authentication (CVE-2019-18679)

* squid: Mishandled HTML in the host parameter to cachemgr.cgi results in insecure behaviour (CVE-2019-18860)

* squid: Improper input validation issues in HTTP Request processing (CVE-2020-8449)

* squid: Buffer overflow in reverse-proxy configurations (CVE-2020-8450)

* squid: DoS in TLS handshake (CVE-2020-14058)

* squid: Request smuggling and poisoning attack against the HTTP cache (CVE-2020-15049)

* squid: Improper input validation could result in a DoS (CVE-2020-24606)

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 8.3 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 affected libecap, libecap-devel and / or squid packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 142412

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4743.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/4/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8450

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12526

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libecap-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libecap

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/11/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12520, CVE-2019-12521, CVE-2019-12523, CVE-2019-12524, CVE-2019-12526, CVE-2019-12528, CVE-2019-12529, CVE-2019-12854, CVE-2019-18676, CVE-2019-18677, CVE-2019-18678, CVE-2019-18679, CVE-2019-18860, CVE-2020-14058, CVE-2020-15049, CVE-2020-24606, CVE-2020-8449, CVE-2020-8450

CWE: 119, 122, 20, 200, 400, 444, 676, 79

RHSA: 2020:4743

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