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Amazon Linux 2 : squid (ALAS-2023-2081)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 176940

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of squid installed on the remote host is prior to 3.5.20-17. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2081 advisory.

 An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.9. URN response handling in Squid suffers from a heap-based buffer overflow. When receiving data from a remote server in response to an URN request, Squid fails to ensure that the response can fit within the buffer. This leads to attacker controlled data overflowing in the heap. (CVE-2019-12526)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update squid' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2023-2081.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-12526.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 176940

File Name: al2_ALAS-2023-2081.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/8/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12526

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:squid-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:squid-migration-script, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:squid-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:squid

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12526