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Debian DSA-2111-1 : squid3 - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 49277

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Synopsis

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

Description

Phil Oester discovered that Squid-3, a fully featured Web Proxy cache, is prone to a denial of service attack via a specially crafted request that includes empty strings.

Solution

Upgrade the squid3 packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny4.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=596086

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2111

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 49277

File Name: debian_DSA-2111.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/20/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3072

BID: 42982

DSA: 2111