CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
96.6%
It was discovered that Squid did not always clean up cache memory correctly. A remote attacker could manipulate cache update replies and cause Squid to use all available memory, leading to a denial of service.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-565-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(29921);
script_version("1.15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-6239");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"565-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : squid vulnerability (USN-565-1)");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"It was discovered that Squid did not always clean up cache memory
correctly. A remote attacker could manipulate cache update replies and
cause Squid to use all available memory, leading to a denial of
service.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/565-1/"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_cwe_id(20);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-cgi");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-common");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squidclient");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/01/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/01/10");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2008-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! ereg(pattern:"^(6\.06|6\.10|7\.04|7\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 6.06 / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"squid", pkgver:"2.5.12-4ubuntu2.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"squid-cgi", pkgver:"2.5.12-4ubuntu2.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"squid-common", pkgver:"2.5.12-4ubuntu2.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"squidclient", pkgver:"2.5.12-4ubuntu2.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"squid", pkgver:"2.6.1-3ubuntu1.5")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"squid-cgi", pkgver:"2.6.1-3ubuntu1.5")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"squid-common", pkgver:"2.6.1-3ubuntu1.5")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"squidclient", pkgver:"2.6.1-3ubuntu1.5")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"squid", pkgver:"2.6.5-4ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"squid-cgi", pkgver:"2.6.5-4ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"squid-common", pkgver:"2.6.5-4ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"squidclient", pkgver:"2.6.5-4ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"squid", pkgver:"2.6.14-1ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"squid-cgi", pkgver:"2.6.14-1ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"squid-common", pkgver:"2.6.14-1ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"squidclient", pkgver:"2.6.14-1ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : ubuntu_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "squid / squid-cgi / squid-common / squidclient");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | squid | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | squid-cgi | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-cgi |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | squid-common | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-common |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | squidclient | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squidclient |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.06 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 7.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 7.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10 |