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AlmaLinux 8 : squid:4 (ALSA-2022:1939)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 161127

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2022:1939 advisory.

 * squid: out-of-bounds read in WCCP protocol data may lead to information disclosure (CVE-2021-28116)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libecap, libecap-devel and / or squid packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2022-1939.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 161127

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2022-1939.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 5/12/2022

Updated: 1/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28116

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libecap-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:squid, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libecap

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28116