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Fedora 16 : squid-3.2.5-1.fc16 (2012-20537)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63336

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security update #887962 - DoS (excessive resource consumption) via invalid Content-Length headers or via memory leaks.

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Solution

Update the affected squid package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887962

http://www.nessus.org/u?7ec905ab

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63336

File Name: fedora_2012-20537.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/27/2012

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: 4.4

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:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/18/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5643

BID: 56957

FEDORA: 2012-20537