RHEL 8 : squid:4 (RHSA-2021:4292)

high Nessus Plugin ID 155209

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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-2021:4292 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 (4.15). (BZ#1964384)

Security Fix(es):

* squid: denial of service in URN processing (CVE-2021-28651)

* squid: denial of service issue in Cache Manager (CVE-2021-28652)

* squid: denial of service in HTTP response processing (CVE-2021-28662)

* squid: improper input validation in HTTP Range header (CVE-2021-31806)

* squid: incorrect memory management in HTTP Range header (CVE-2021-31807)

* squid: integer overflow in HTTP Range header (CVE-2021-31808)

* squid: denial of service in HTTP response processing (CVE-2021-33620)

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 8.5 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: High

ID: 155209

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-4292.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/11/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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: 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2021

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

CWE: 190, 20, 400, 401

RHSA: 2021:4292

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