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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63472
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-724-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'squid' package(s) announced via the USN-724-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'squid' package(s) announced via the USN-724-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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 (assertion failure).

Affected Software/OS:
'squid' package(s) on Ubuntu 8.10.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

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-2009-0478
BugTraq ID: 33604
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33604
Bugtraq: 20090204 Squid Proxy Cache Denial of Service in request handling (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500653/100/0/threaded
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8021
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-38.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:034
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021684
http://secunia.com/advisories/33731
http://secunia.com/advisories/34467
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2009:005 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG

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