The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0771 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * squid: DoS against HTTP and HTTPS (CVE-2023-5824)

    * squid: Denial of Service in SSL Certificate validation (CVE-2023-46724)

    * squid: NULL pointer dereference in the gopher protocol code (CVE-2023-46728)

    * squid: Buffer over-read in the HTTP Message processing feature (CVE-2023-49285)

    * squid: Incorrect Check of Function Return Value In Helper Process management (CVE-2023-49286)

    * squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing (CVE-2023-50269)

    Bug Fix(es):

    * squid crashes in assertion when a parent peer exists (RHEL-18255)

    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.

Detections

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RHEL 8 : squid:4 (RHSA-2024:0771)

high Nessus Plugin ID 190404

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Version 1.4 Nov 7, 2024, 2:36 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411071436
Version 1.3 Nov 5, 2024, 6:29 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411051829
Version 1.2 Jun 4, 2024, 3:18 AM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406040318
Version 1.1 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.0 Feb 12, 2024, 12:26 PM New Plugin Feed: 202402121226