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GLSA-200801-05 : Squid: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 29909

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200801-05 (Squid: Denial of Service)

 The Wikimedia Foundation reported a memory leak vulnerability when performing cache updates.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could perform numerous specially crafted requests to the vulnerable server, resulting in a Denial of Service.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Squid users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-proxy/squid-2.6.17'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200801-05

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 29909

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200801-05.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 1/10/2008

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:squid, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/9/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6239

CWE: 20

GLSA: 200801-05