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Squid 3.2.x < 3.2.13 / 3.3.x < 3.3.8 Port Handling DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 6932

Synopsis

The remote proxy server is affected by a denial of service vulnerability

Description

Squid versions 3.2.x prior to 3.2.13 or 3.3.x prior to 3.3.8 are potentially affected by a denial of service vulnerability. The vulnerability exists when handling a port number in the host header of a specially crafted HTTP Request

Solution

Either upgrade to Squid version 3.2.13 / 3.3.8 or later, or apply the vendor-supplied patch.

See Also

http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2013_3.txt

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2013/Jul/98

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 6932

Family: Web Servers

Published: 7/19/2013

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 69042

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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: 7/13/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4123

BID: 61159, 61182