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Oracle Linux 7 : squid (ELSA-2022-5542)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 163025

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2022-5542 advisory.

 - Resolves: CVE-2021-28651 squid: Bug 5104: Memory leak in RFC 2169 response parsing (#778)
 - Resolves: CVE-2021-28652 squid: Bug 5106: Broken cache manager URL parsing (#788)
 - Resolves: CVE-2021-31806,31807,31808 squid: Handle more Range requests (#790)
 - Resolves: CVE-2021-33620 squid: Handle more partial responses (#791)
 - Resolves: #2100778 - CVE-2021-46784 squid: DoS when processing gopher server responses
 - Resolves: #1944256 - CVE-2020-25097 squid: improper input validation may allow a trusted client to perform HTTP Request Smuggling
 - Resolves: #1872349 - CVE-2020-24606 squid: Improper Input Validation could result in a DoS
 - Resolves: #1872327 - CVE-2020-15810 squid: HTTP Request Smuggling could result in cache poisoning
 - Resolves: #1872342 - CVE-2020-15811 squid: HTTP Request Splitting could result in cache poisoning
 - Resolves: #1802516 - CVE-2020-8449 squid: Improper input validation issues in HTTP Request processing
 - Resolves: #1802515 - CVE-2020-8450 squid: Buffer overflow in a Squid acting as reverse-proxy
 - Resolves: #1853129 - CVE-2020-15049 squid: request smuggling and poisoning attack against the HTTP cache

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux 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 squid, squid-migration-script and / or squid-sysvinit packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-5542.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 163025

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2022-5542.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2022

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-46784

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:squid-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:squid, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:squid-migration-script

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/12/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-46784