news 28 Posted August 4, 2016 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: squid security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1573-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1573.html Issue date: 2016-08-04 CVE Names: CVE-2016-5408 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: An update for squid is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 3. Description: Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data objects. Security Fix(es): * It was found that the fix for CVE-2016-4051 released via RHSA-2016:1138 did not properly prevent the stack overflow in the munge_other_line() function. A remote attacker could send specially crafted data to the Squid proxy, which would exploit the cachemgr CGI utility, possibly triggering execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5408) Red Hat would like to thank Amos Jeffries (Squid) for reporting this issue. 4. Solution: For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 After installing this update, the squid service will be restarted automatically. 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1359203 - CVE-2016-5408 squid: Buffer overflow vulnerability in cachemgr.cgi tool 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6): Source: squid-3.1.23-16.el6_8.6.src.rpm i386: squid-3.1.23-16.el6_8.6.i686.rpm squid-debuginfo-3.1.23-16.el6_8.6.i686.rpm ppc64: squid-3.1.23-16.el6_8.6.ppc64.rpm squid-debuginfo-3.1.23-16.el6_8.6.ppc64.rpm s390x: squid-3.1.23-16.el6_8.6.s390x.rpm squid-debuginfo-3.1.23-16.el6_8.6.s390x.rpm x86_64: squid-3.1.23-16.el6_8.6.x86_64.rpm squid-debuginfo-3.1.23-16.el6_8.6.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6): Source: squid-3.1.23-16.el6_8.6.src.rpm i386: squid-3.1.23-16.el6_8.6.i686.rpm squid-debuginfo-3.1.23-16.el6_8.6.i686.rpm x86_64: squid-3.1.23-16.el6_8.6.x86_64.rpm squid-debuginfo-3.1.23-16.el6_8.6.x86_64.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/ 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5408 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1138.html https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iD8DBQFXozh7XlSAg2UNWIIRAg4AAJ96Rmvua/+TWRbTd8HFlBzrxA94WQCfSnQe +Dl6neUrLXaGxmhcN0UzKFU= =a3Od -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Share this post Link to post
