CVE-2023-49286
Denial of Service in Helper Process management
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.6 High
- Published
- Dec 4, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- Reserved
- Nov 24, 2023
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 8.6 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
squidsquid-cache |
|
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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