CVE-2023-49286

Description

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to an Incorrect Check of Function Return Value bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against its Helper process management. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240119-0004/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MEV66D3PAAY6K7TWDT3WZBLCPLASFJDC/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/A5QASTMCUSUEW3UOMKHZJB3FTONWSRXS/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00003.html

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-xggx-9329-3c27

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/6014c6648a2a54a4ecb7f952ea1163e0798f9264

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2023_8.patch

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3