Oracle Linux 9 : squid (ELSA-2024-1376)

high Nessus Plugin ID 192315

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-1376 advisory.

- Resolves: RHEL-19555 - squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing (CVE-2023-50269)
- Resolves: RHEL-28614 - squid: Denial of Service in HTTP Chunked Decoding (CVE-2024-25111)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected squid package.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-1376.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 192315

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-1376.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/20/2024

Updated: 9/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-50269

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:squid, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-50269, CVE-2024-25111, CVE-2024-25617