Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : squid (ELSA-2014-1148)

high Nessus Plugin ID 77517

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2014:1148 :

An updated squid package that fixes two security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data objects.

A flaw was found in the way Squid handled malformed HTTP Range headers. A remote attacker able to send HTTP requests to the Squid proxy could use this flaw to crash Squid. (CVE-2014-3609)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in Squid's DNS lookup module. A remote attacker able to send HTTP requests to the Squid proxy could use this flaw to crash Squid. (CVE-2013-4115)

Red Hat would like to thank the Squid project for reporting the CVE-2014-3609 issue. Upstream acknowledges Matthew Daley as the original reporter.

All Squid users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to correct these issues. After installing this update, the squid service will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Update the affected squid package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 77517

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2014-1148.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 9/4/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:squid, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4115, CVE-2014-3609

BID: 61111, 69453

RHSA: 2014:1148

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