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GLSA-200502-25 : Squid: Denial of Service through DNS responses

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17144

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-200502-25 (Squid: Denial of Service through DNS responses)

 Handling of certain DNS responses trigger assertion failures.
 Impact :

 By returning a specially crafted DNS response an attacker could cause Squid to crash by triggering an assertion failure.
 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-2.5.8'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200502-25

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17144

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200502-25.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 2/18/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/13/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0446

GLSA: 200502-25