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RHEL 8 : squid:4 (RHSA-2023:6801)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185357

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for squid:4.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6801 advisory.

 Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data objects.

 Security Fix(es):

 * squid: Denial of Service in HTTP Digest Authentication (CVE-2023-46847)

 * squid: Request/Response smuggling in HTTP/1.1 and ICAP (CVE-2023-46846)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL squid:4 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:6801.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?26d6a7c7

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245910

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245916

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6801

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185357

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6801.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46846

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libecap-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libecap

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46846, CVE-2023-46847

CWE: 120, 444

RHSA: 2023:6801