Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : squid vulnerability (USN-601-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31967

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that Squid did not perform proper bounds checking when processing cache update replies. A remote authenticated user may be able to trigger an assertion error and cause a denial of service.
This vulnerability is due to an incorrect upstream fix for CVE-2007-6239. (CVE-2008-1612).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/601-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31967

File Name: ubuntu_USN-601-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/17/2008

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-cgi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squidclient, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2008

Reference Information

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

BID: 28693

CWE: 20

USN: 601-1