CVE-2023-49286

NameCVE-2023-49286
DescriptionSquid 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3709-1, DSA-5637-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
squid (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye4.13-10+deb11u3fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)5.7-2+deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie6.12-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
squidsourcebuster4.6-1+deb10u9DLA-3709-1
squidsourcebullseye4.13-10+deb11u3DSA-5637-1
squidsourcebookworm5.7-2+deb12u1DSA-5637-1
squidsource(unstable)6.5-1low
squid3source(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-xggx-9329-3c27
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/6014c6648a2a54a4ecb7f952ea1163e0798f9264 (SQUID_6_5)
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2023_8.patch

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