Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : squid (MDVSA-2009:161-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40399

Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in squid :

Due to incorrect buffer limits and related bound checks Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests or responses (CVE-2009-2621).

Due to incorrect data validation Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted responses (CVE-2009-2622).

This update provides fixes for these vulnerabilities.

Update :

Additional upstream security patches were applied :

Debug warnings fills up the logs.

Upstream Bug 2728: regression: assertion failed: http.cc:705: !eof

Solution

Update the affected squid and / or squid-cachemgr packages.

See Also

http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2009_2.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40399

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2009-161.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 7/28/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:squid, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:squid-cachemgr, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.1, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.0, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.1

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/8/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2621, CVE-2009-2622

BID: 35812

CWE: 119, 20

MDVSA: 2009:161-1