RHEL 4 : squid (RHSA-2005:201)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17340

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated squid package that fixes a denial of service issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache.

A bug was found in the way Squid handles fully qualified domain name (FQDN) lookups. A malicious DNS server could crash Squid by sending a carefully crafted DNS response to an FQDN lookup. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0446 to this issue.

This erratum also includes two minor patches to the LDAP helpers. One corrects a slight malformation in ldap search requests (although all known LDAP servers accept the requests). The other adds documentation for the -v option to the ldap helpers.

Users of Squid should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch, and is not vulnerable to this issue.

Solution

Update the affected squid package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-0446

http://www.nessus.org/u?bacf8ab4

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:201

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17340

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-201.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/16/2005

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0446

RHSA: 2005:201