Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-49286 - Reachable Assertion vulnerability in Squid-Cache Squid
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH 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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
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/[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://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240119-0004/