CVE-2023-49286

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-617: CWE-617: Reachable Assertion
• CWE-253: CWE-253: Incorrect Check of Function Return Value

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• 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
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MEV66D3PAAY6K7TWDT3WZBLCPLASFJDC/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5QASTMCUSUEW3UOMKHZJB3FTONWSRXS/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00003.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240119-0004/

References

• 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
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MEV66D3PAAY6K7TWDT3WZBLCPLASFJDC/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5QASTMCUSUEW3UOMKHZJB3FTONWSRXS/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00003.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240119-0004/

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