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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.70492
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2011:1791
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2011:1791.

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients,
supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data objects.

An input validation flaw was found in the way Squid calculated the total
number of resource records in the answer section of multiple name server
responses. An attacker could use this flaw to cause Squid to crash.
(CVE-2011-4096)

Users of squid should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a
backported patch to correct this issue. After installing this update, the
squid service will be restarted automatically.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1791.html

Risk factor : Medium

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-4096
1026265
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026265
46609
http://secunia.com/advisories/46609
47459
http://secunia.com/advisories/47459
MDVSA-2011:193
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:193
RHSA-2011:1791
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1791.html
SUSE-SU-2016:1996
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html
SUSE-SU-2016:2089
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html
[oss-security] 20111031 CVE Request -- Squid v3.1.16 -- Invalid free by processing CNAME DNS record pointing to another CNAME record pointing to an empty A-record
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/31/5
[oss-security] 20111031 Re: CVE Request -- Squid v3.1.16 -- Invalid free by processing CNAME DNS record pointing to another CNAME record pointing to an empty A-record
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/3
http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3237#c12
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/changesets/SQUID_3_1_16.html
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