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HistoryJul 13, 2005 - 12:00 a.m.

FreeBSD : squid -- HTTP response splitting cache pollution attack (4e4bd2c2-6bd5-11d9-9e1e-c296ac722cb3)

2005-07-1300:00:00
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According to a whitepaper published by Sanctum, Inc., it is possible to mount cache poisoning attacks against, among others, squid proxies by inserting false replies into the HTTP stream.

The squid patches page notes :

This patch additionally strengthens Squid from the HTTP response attack described by Sanctum.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
#
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include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(18930);
  script_version("1.19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2005-0175");
  script_xref(name:"CERT", value:"625878");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : squid -- HTTP response splitting cache pollution attack (4e4bd2c2-6bd5-11d9-9e1e-c296ac722cb3)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"According to a whitepaper published by Sanctum, Inc., it is possible
to mount cache poisoning attacks against, among others, squid proxies
by inserting false replies into the HTTP stream.

The squid patches page notes :

This patch additionally strengthens Squid from the HTTP response
attack described by Sanctum."
  );
  # http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/#squid-2.5.STABLE7-response_splitting
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?f0d114a4"
  );
  # http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1200
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200"
  );
  # https://www.watchfire.com/securearea/whitepapers.aspx?id=8
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?58b0ed0c"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/4e4bd2c2-6bd5-11d9-9e1e-c296ac722cb3.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?2190c444"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:squid");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2004/03/01");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/01/22");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/07/13");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


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


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"squid<2.5.7_8")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
freebsdfreebsdsquidp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:squid
freebsdfreebsdcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd