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Debian DSA-576-1 : squid - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 15674

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Squid, the internet object cache, the popular WWW proxy cache. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

 - CVE-1999-0710 It is possible to bypass access lists and scan arbitrary hosts and ports in the network through cachemgr.cgi, which is installed by default. This update disables this feature and introduces a configuration file (/etc/squid/cachemgr.conf) to control this behavior.

 - CAN-2004-0918

 The asn_parse_header function (asn1.c) in the SNMP module for Squid allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via certain SNMP packets with negative length fields that causes a memory allocation error.

Solution

Upgrade the squid package.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.6-2woody4.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133131

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-576

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 15674

File Name: debian_DSA-576.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/29/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/1999

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-1999-0710, CVE-2004-0918

CWE: 399

DSA: 576