Executive Summary

Summary
Title SquidClamav: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-201209-08 First vendor Publication 2012-09-24
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2012-09-24
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in SquidClamav may result in Denial of Service.

Background

SquidClamav is a HTTP anti-virus for Squid based on ClamAV and ICAP.

Description

SquidClamav does not properly escape URLs before passing them to the system command call.

Impact

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted URL to SquidClamav, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All SquidClamav users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-proxy/squidclamav-6.8"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-3501 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3501
[ 2 ] SquidClamav News http://squidclamav.darold.net/news.html

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-08.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-08.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 15

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-09-26 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201209-08 (squidclamav)
File : nvt/glsa_201209_08.nasl
2012-09-17 Name : SquidClamav URL Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability
File : nvt/gb_SquidClamAv_54663.nasl
2012-08-30 Name : FreeBSD Ports: squidclamav
File : nvt/freebsd_squidclamav0.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-09-25 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201209-08.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-09-10 Name : The remote web server hosts a CGI script that is affected by a remote denial ...
File : squidclamav_6_7_dos.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-27 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_8defa0f9ee8a11e18bd80022156e8794.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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