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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Squid vulnerabilities (USN-4981-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 150232

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4981-1 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.
 (CVE-2021-28651)

 Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled requests to the Cache Manager API. A remote attacker with access privileges could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.10, and Ubuntu 21.04.
 (CVE-2021-28652)

 Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain response headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue was only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.10, and Ubuntu 21.04. (CVE-2021-28662)

 Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled range request processing. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-31806, CVE-2021-31807, CVE-2021-31808)

 Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain HTTP responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-33620)

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-4981-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 150232

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4981-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2021

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: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28651

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-cgi, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, 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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28651, CVE-2021-28652, CVE-2021-28662, CVE-2021-31806, CVE-2021-31807, CVE-2021-31808, CVE-2021-33620

USN: 4981-1