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FreeBSD : squid -- Denial of Service vulnerability in HTCP (81d9dc0c-1988-11df-8e66-0019996bc1f7)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44601

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Squid security advisory 2010:2 reports :

Due to incorrect processing Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when receiving specially crafted HTCP packets.

This problem allows any machine to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service when its HTCP port is open.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2010_2.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?1d8c1885

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44601

File Name: freebsd_pkg_81d9dc0c198811df8e660019996bc1f7.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Published: 2/15/2010

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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:freebsd:freebsd:squid, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0639

CWE: 20