RULE(RULE ID:805653)

Rule General Information
Release Date: 2018-11-12
Rule Name: Squid Proxy SNMP Query Rejection Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Rule Protection Details
Description: A denial of service vulnerability has been reported in the SNMP component of Squid Proxy. The vulnerability is due to a memory leak in SNMP query rejection code. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a large number of SNMP queries to the target system. Affected versions: 3.2.0.10 to 3.5.28 and 4.x prior to 4.4
Impact: An attacker can launch a denial of service attack by exploiting the vulnerability successfully.
Affected OS: Network Device, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Other Unix, Linux, Others, Android
Reference: http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2018_5.txt
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/401.html
Solutions
This bug is fixed by Squid version 4.4. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in our patch archives:
Squid 3.5:
Squid 4:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/squid-3.5-bc9786119f058a76ddf0625424bc33d36460b9a2.patch
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-983c5c36e5f109512ed1af38a329d0b5d0967498.patch