Moderate: squid:4 security and bug fix update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-13345   CVE-2019-13345   CVE-2019-13345  

Synopsis

Moderate: squid:4 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for the squid:4 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

Description

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

Security Fix(es):

  • squid: XSS via user_name or auth parameter in cachemgr.cgi (CVE-2019-13345)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1679526 - Missing detailed configuration file [rhel-8]
  • BZ - 1683527 - "Reloading" message on a fresh reboot after enabling squid [rhel-8]
  • BZ - 1703117 - RHEL 7 to 8 fails with squid installed because dirs changed to symlinks
  • BZ - 1717046 - Specify module and stream name in module's yaml file
  • BZ - 1727744 - CVE-2019-13345 squid: XSS via user_name or auth parameter in cachemgr.cgi

CVEs

References