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CentOS 6 : squid (CESA-2014:0597)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 74312

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated squid packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data objects.

A denial of service flaw was found in the way Squid processed certain HTTPS requests when the SSL Bump feature was enabled. A remote attacker could send specially crafted requests that could cause Squid to crash. (CVE-2014-0128)

Red Hat would like to thank the Squid project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Mathias Fischer and Fabian Hugelshofer from Open Systems AG as the original reporters.

All squid users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing this update, the squid service will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Update the affected squid package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?fb87ee82

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 74312

File Name: centos_RHSA-2014-0597.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/5/2014

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment 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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0128

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:squid, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/4/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0128

BID: 66112

RHSA: 2014:0597