Debian DSA-2304-1 : squid3 - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56143

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Synopsis

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

Description

Ben Hawkes discovered that Squid 3, a full featured Web Proxy cache (HTTP proxy), is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing Gopher server replies. An attacker can exploit this flaw by connecting to a Gopher server that returns lines longer than 4096 bytes. This may result in denial of service conditions (daemon crash) or the possibly the execution of arbitrary code with rights of the squid daemon.

Solution

Upgrade the squid3 packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny5.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.6-1.2+squeeze1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56143

File Name: debian_DSA-2304.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/12/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid3, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, 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: 9/11/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3205

BID: 49356

DSA: 2304

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