Squid 3.1.6 DNS Replay DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5666

Synopsis

The remote proxy server is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

Description

Squid 3.1.6 is potentially affected by a denial of service vulnerability that is caused by an assertion failure when contacting IPv4-only DNS resolvers.

Solution

Upgrade to Squid 3.1.7 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5666

Family: Web Servers

Published: 9/16/2010

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 48433

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 v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2951

BID: 42645

Detections

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