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Debian DSA-1732-1 : squid3 - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35763

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Joshua Morin, Mikko Varpiola and Jukka Taimisto discovered an assertion error in squid3, a full featured Web Proxy cache, which could lead to a denial of service attack.

Solution

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.PRE5-5+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.STABLE8-3, which was already included in the lenny release.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1732

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35763

File Name: debian_DSA-1732.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

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:debian:debian_linux:squid3, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0478

CWE: 20

DSA: 1732