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FreeBSD : squid -- denial of service (c37de843-488e-11e2-a5c9-0019996bc1f7)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63366

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Synopsis

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

Description

Squid developers report :

Due to missing input validation Squid cachemgr.cgi tool is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests.

This problem allows any client able to reach the cachemgr.cgi to perform a denial of service attack on the service host.

The nature of the attack may cause secondary effects through resource consumption on the host server.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2012_1.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?028369d0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63366

File Name: freebsd_pkg_c37de843488e11e2a5c90019996bc1f7.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 12/31/2012

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: 12/28/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5643, CVE-2013-0189