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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
squid-cache squid
< 6.5affected
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/ ↗