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Squid 3.x < 3.0.STABLE18 / 3.1.x < 3.1.0.13 DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5108

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack

Description

According to its banner, the version of the Squid proxy caching server installed on the remote host is older than 3.0.STABLE17 or 3.1.0.12. Such versions reportedly use incorrect bounds checking when processing some requests or responses. Squid-2.x releases are not vulnerable.

Solution

Either upgrade to Squid version 3.0.STABLE17 or 3.1.0.12 or later or apply the patch referenced in the project's advisory above.

See Also

http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2009_2.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5108

Family: Web Servers

Published: 7/29/2009

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 40420

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:squid-cache:squid

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/27/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2621, CVE-2009-2622

BID: 35812