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FreeBSD : squid -- Denial of service vulnerability in request handling (e4dac715-c818-11df-a92c-0015587e2cc1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 49687

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Synopsis

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

Description

Squid security advisory 2010:3 reports :

Due to an internal error in string handling Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests.

This problem allows any trusted client to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2010_3.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?49a28fe1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 49687

File Name: freebsd_pkg_e4dac715c81811dfa92c0015587e2cc1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 9/27/2010

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: 9/24/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3072