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FreeBSD : Squid -- Denial of Service Vulnerability (6eb580d7-a29c-11dc-8919-001c2514716c)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 29230

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Squid secuirty advisory reports :

Due to incorrect bounds checking Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service check during some cache update reply processing.

This problem allows any client trusted to use the service to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?45b1cdae

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 29230

File Name: freebsd_pkg_6eb580d7a29c11dc8919001c2514716c.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 12/7/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6239

BID: 26687

CWE: 20