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CentOS 7 : squid (CESA-2014:1147)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 77508

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated squid packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important 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 flaw was found in the way Squid handled malformed HTTP Range headers. A remote attacker able to send HTTP requests to the Squid proxy could use this flaw to crash Squid. (CVE-2014-3609)

Red Hat would like to thank the Squid project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Matthew Daley as the original reporter.

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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?650e5019

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 77508

File Name: centos_RHSA-2014-1147.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/4/2014

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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-2014-3609

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:squid, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:squid-sysvinit

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/3/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3609

BID: 69453

RHSA: 2014:1147