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Fedora 15 : squid-3.1.16-1.fc15 (2011-15233)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56863

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Upstream bugfix update fixing invalid free on certain DNS responses

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected squid package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750316

http://www.nessus.org/u?ab2d8e84

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56863

File Name: fedora_2011-15233.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/18/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless 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:fedoraproject:fedora:squid, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4096

BID: 50449

FEDORA: 2011-15233