Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-5824 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A flaw was found in Squid. The limits applied for validation of HTTP response headers are applied before caching. However, Squid may grow a cached HTTP response header beyond the configured maximum size, causing a stall or crash of the worker process when a large header is retrieved from the disk cache, resulting in a denial of service.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245914
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5824
- https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-543m-w2m2-g255
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7465
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7668
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0072
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0397
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0771
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0772
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0773
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1153