GLSA-200502-04 : Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 16441

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200502-04 (Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities)

Squid contains several vulnerabilities:
Buffer overflow when handling WCCP recvfrom() (CAN-2005-0211).
Loose checking of HTTP headers (CAN-2005-0173 and CAN-2005-0174).
Incorrect handling of LDAP login names with spaces (CAN-2005-0175).
Impact :

An attacker could exploit:
the WCCP buffer overflow to cause Denial of Service.
the HTTP header parsing vulnerabilities to inject arbitrary response data, potentially leading to content spoofing, web cache poisoning and other cross-site scripting or HTTP response splitting attacks.
the LDAP issue to login with several variations of the same login name, leading to log poisoning.
Workaround :

There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Squid users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r5'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200502-04

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 16441

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200502-04.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 2/14/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

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:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:squid

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 2/2/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0173, CVE-2005-0174, CVE-2005-0175, CVE-2005-0211

GLSA: 200502-04