Executive Summary

Summary
Title Squid vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3557-1 First vendor Publication 2018-02-05
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-02-05
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

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 17.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Squid.

Software Description: - squid3: Web proxy cache server

Details:

Mathias Fischer discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain long strings in headers. A malicious remote server could possibly cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-2569)

William Lima discovered that Squid incorrectly handled XML parsing when processing Edge Side Includes (ESI). A malicious remote server could possibly cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-2570)

Alex Rousskov discovered that Squid incorrectly handled response-parsing failures. A malicious remote server could possibly cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-2571)

Santiago Ruano Rincón discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain Vary headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-3948)

Louis Dion-Marcil discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain Edge Side Includes (ESI) responses. A malicious remote server could possibly cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-1000024)

Louis Dion-Marcil discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain Edge Side Includes (ESI) responses. A malicious remote server could possibly cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-1000027)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 17.10:
squid3 3.5.23-5ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
squid3 3.5.12-1ubuntu7.5

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
squid3 3.3.8-1ubuntu6.11

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3557-1
CVE-2016-2569, CVE-2016-2570, CVE-2016-2571, CVE-2016-3948,
CVE-2018-1000024, CVE-2018-1000027

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/squid3/3.5.23-5ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/squid3/3.5.12-1ubuntu7.5
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/squid3/3.3.8-1ubuntu6.11

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3557-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
60 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
20 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
20 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 290
Os 3
Os 3

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2018-03-29 Squid HTTP Vary response header denial of service attempt
RuleID : 45757 - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2018-03-29 Squid HTTP Accept Encoding response header denial of service attempt
RuleID : 45756 - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2017-02-23 Squid HTTP Vary response header denial of service attempt
RuleID : 41379 - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-09-20 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2018-1081.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-02 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1075.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-02 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1074.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-26 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_d5b6d151188711e894f79c5c8e75236a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-23 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4122.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-07 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-4fabf63492.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-05 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1267.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-05 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1266.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-01 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2016-1056.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-15 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20161103_squid_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-28 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-2600.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-11 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-2600.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-04 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-2600.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-02 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2089-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-02 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2008-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-02 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-1996-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-988.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-b3b9407940.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-95edf19d8a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-11 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201607-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-09 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2016-7b40eb9e29.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-04-05 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_297117baf92d11e592ce002590263bf5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-21 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3522.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-08 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2921-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-02 Name : The remote proxy server is potentially affected by multiple denial of service...
File : squid_4_0_7.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-445.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-25 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_660ebbf5daeb11e5b2bd002590263bf5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2019-07-17 21:22:11
  • Multiple Updates
2018-03-16 09:21:04
  • Multiple Updates
2018-02-05 21:20:24
  • First insertion