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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.142630
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Squid Security Update Advisory SQUID-2019:1
Summary:Squid is prone to a denial of service vulnerability due to incorrect string; termination the cachemgr.cgi which may access unallocated memory.
Description:Summary:
Squid is prone to a denial of service vulnerability due to incorrect string
termination the cachemgr.cgi which may access unallocated memory.

Vulnerability Insight:
This problem allows a remote attacker with access to the Squid manager API to
perform a denial of service on other clients.

This problem is limited to the cachemgr CGI binary.

Web servers which run per-client instances of CGI tools are affected by the issue, but the denial of service is
not able to affect other clients.

Affected Software/OS:
Squid versions 4.x - 4.7.

Solution:
Update to version 4.8 or later.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-12854
Bugtraq: 20190825 [SECURITY] [DSA 4507-1] squid security update (Google Search)
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/42
Debian Security Information: DSA-4507 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4507
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2019_1.txt
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-2981a957716c61ff7e21eee1d7d6eb5a237e466d.patch
https://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4937
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2019:2540 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00053.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2019:2541 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00056.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4213-1/
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