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RHEL 2.1 / 3 : squid (RHSA-2005:173)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17264

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated squid packages that fix a denial of service issue are now available.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team

Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache.

A bug was found in the way Squid handles FQDN lookups. It was possible to crash the Squid server by sending a carefully crafted DNS response to an FQDN lookup. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0446 to this issue.

Users of squid should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch, and is not vulnerable to this issue.

Solution

Update the affected squid package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-0446

http://www.nessus.org/u?bacf8ab4

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:173

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17264

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-173.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2005

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0446

RHSA: 2005:173