CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : squid (CESA-2008:0214)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31947

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated squid packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4 and 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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

A flaw was found in the way squid manipulated HTTP headers for cached objects stored in system memory. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a squid child process to exit. This interrupted existing connections and made proxy services unavailable. Note: the parent squid process started a new child process, so this attack only resulted in a temporary denial of service. (CVE-2008-1612)

Users of squid are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.

Solution

Update the affected squid package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31947

File Name: centos_RHSA-2008-0214.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 4/17/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:squid, cpe:/o:centos:centos:3, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/4/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6239, CVE-2008-1612

BID: 28693

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2008:0214

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