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Debian DSA-1843-1 : squid3 - several vulnerabilities

🗓️ 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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 nessus
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Debian DSA-1843-1 : squid3 - several vulnerabilities. Denial of service attacks, incorrect bounds checking and insufficient validation. Upgrade to squid3 3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1843. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(44708);
  script_version("1.11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");

  script_bugtraq_id(35812);
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1843");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1843-1 : squid3 - several vulnerabilities");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"It was discovered that squid3, a high-performance proxy caching server
for web clients, is prone to several denial of service attacks. Due to
incorrect bounds checking and insufficient validation while processing
response and request data an attacker is able to crash the squid
daemon via crafted requests or responses.

The squid package in the oldstable distribution (etch) is not affected
by this problem."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538989"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1843"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the squid3 packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny1."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squid3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/07/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2010/02/24");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"squid3", reference:"3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"squid3-cgi", reference:"3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"squid3-common", reference:"3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"squidclient", reference:"3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

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