Debian DLA-216-1 : squid security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83168

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2014-3609: Denial of Service in Range header processing.

Ignore Range headers with unidentifiable byte-range values. If squid is unable to determine the byte value for ranges, treat the header as invalid.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected squid, and squid-common packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83168

File Name: debian_DLA-216.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/1/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3609

BID: 69453

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