FreeBSD : squid -- denial-of-service vulnerabilities (5bf1a715-cc57-440f-b0a5-6406961c54a7)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18947

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The Squid team reported several denial-of-service vulnerabilities related to the handling of DNS responses and NT Lan Manager messages.
These may allow an attacker to crash the Squid cache.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?af6b5d37

http://www.nessus.org/u?f3a4ff2c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18947

File Name: freebsd_pkg_5bf1a715cc57440fb0a56406961c54a7.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

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:freebsd:freebsd:squid, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0096, CVE-2005-0097, CVE-2005-0446