RHEL 3 : squid (RHSA-2004:462)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15410

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated squid package that fixes a security vulnerability in the NTLM authentication helper is now available.

Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache.

An out of bounds memory read bug was found within the NTLM authentication helper routine. If Squid is configured to use the NTLM authentication helper, a remote attacker could send a carefully crafted NTLM authentication packet and cause Squid to crash. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-0832 to this issue.

Note: The NTLM authentication helper is not enabled by default in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 is not vulnerable to this issue as it shipped with a version of Squid which did not contain the vulnerable helper.

Users of Squid should update to this erratum package, which contains a backported patch and is not vulnerable to this issue.

Solution

Update the affected squid package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2004-0832

https://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1045

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004:462

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15410

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2004-462.nasl

Version: 1.29

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/2/2004

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0832

RHSA: 2004:462