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RHEL 9 : squid (RHSA-2024:4861)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 204731

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4861 advisory.

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

 Security Fix(es):

 * squid: vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Cache Manager error responses (CVE-2024-23638)

 * squid: Out-of-bounds write error may lead to Denial of Service (CVE-2024-37894)

 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 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:4861.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260051

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294353

http://www.nessus.org/u?66b05d7d

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4861

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 204731

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-4861.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/25/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-23638

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-23638, CVE-2024-37894

CWE: 787, 825

RHSA: 2024:4861