Executive Summary

Informations
Name MDVSA-2009:034 First vendor Publication 2009-02-10
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2009-02-10
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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

Due to an internal error Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests. This problem allows any client to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service (CVE-2009-0478).

The updated packages have been patched to adress this.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:034

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13985
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13985
Title: USN-724-1 -- squid vulnerability
Description: Joshua Morin, Mikko Varpiola and Jukka Taimisto discovered that Squid did not properly validate the HTTP version when processing requests. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service .
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-724-1
CVE-2009-0478
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 8.10
Product(s): squid
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17985
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17985
Title: DSA-1732-1 squid3 - denial of service
Description: Joshua Morin, Mikko Varpiola and Jukka Taimisto discovered an assertion error in squid3, a full featured Web Proxy cache, which could lead to a denial of service attack.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1732-1
CVE-2009-0478
Version: 7
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): squid3
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8198
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8198
Title: DSA-1732 squid3 -- denial of service
Description: Joshua Morin, Mikko Varpiola and Jukka Taimisto discovered an assertion error in squid3, a full featured Web Proxy cache, which could lead to a denial of service attack.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1732
CVE-2009-0478
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): squid3
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 22

ExploitDB Exploits

id Description
2009-02-09 Squid < 3.1 5 - HTTP Version Number Parsing Denial of Service Exploit

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-06-05 Name : Ubuntu USN-723-1 (git-core)
File : nvt/ubuntu_723_1.nasl
2009-03-31 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200903-38 (Squid)
File : nvt/glsa_200903_38.nasl
2009-03-13 Name : Ubuntu USN-731-1 (apache2)
File : nvt/ubuntu_731_1.nasl
2009-03-13 Name : Ubuntu USN-732-1 (dash)
File : nvt/ubuntu_732_1.nasl
2009-03-07 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1732-1 (squid3)
File : nvt/deb_1732_1.nasl
2009-03-02 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:005
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_005.nasl
2009-03-02 Name : Ubuntu USN-724-1 (squid)
File : nvt/ubuntu_724_1.nasl
2009-02-13 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-1517 (squid)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_1517.nasl
2009-02-13 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-1526 (squid)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_1526.nasl
2009-02-13 Name : FreeBSD Ports: squid
File : nvt/freebsd_squid22.nasl
2009-02-13 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:034 (squid)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_034.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
51810 Squid HTTP Version Number Request Handling DoS

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2017-07-27 Invalid HTTP Version String
RuleID : 43762-community - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-WEBAPP
2017-08-29 Invalid HTTP Version String
RuleID : 43762 - Revision : 2 - Type : SERVER-WEBAPP
2014-01-10 invalid HTTP version string
RuleID : 2570-community - Revision : 25 - Type : SERVER-WEBAPP
2014-01-10 invalid HTTP version string
RuleID : 2570 - Revision : 25 - Type : SERVER-WEBAPP
2014-01-10 Squid Proxy http version number overflow attempt
RuleID : 16521 - Revision : 7 - Type : SERVER-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_squid-090218.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-1526.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-034.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-724-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-25 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200903-38.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-04 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1732.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-02-13 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-1517.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-02-09 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_9c2460a4f6b111dd94d90030843d3802.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-02-09 Name : The remote proxy server is susceptible to a denial of service attack.
File : squid_http_version_dos.nasl - Type : ACT_MIXED_ATTACK

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2014-02-17 11:39:58
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