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Amazon Linux 2023 : squid (ALAS2023-2025-857)

high Nessus Plugin ID 216818

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-857 advisory.

 Squid is an open source caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to Input Validation, Premature Release of Resource During Expected Lifetime, and Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime bugs, Squid is vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks by a trusted server against all clients using the proxy. This bug is fixed in the default build configuration of Squid version 6.10.
 (CVE-2024-45802)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

Solution

Run 'dnf update squid --releasever 2023.6.20250218' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2025-857.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-45802.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 216818

File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2025-857.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/26/2025

Updated: 2/26/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2024-45802

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:amazon:linux:squid-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:squid, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:squid-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45802

IAVB: 2024-B-0168