High severity7.3NVD Advisory· Published Feb 4, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-8450
CVE-2020-8450
Description
An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.10. Due to incorrect buffer management, a remote client can cause a buffer overflow in a Squid instance acting as a reverse proxy.
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Affected products
32- Squid/Squiddescription
- osv-coords21 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/libecappkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/opensuse/squid&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=HPE%20Helion%20OpenStack%208pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%207pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%208pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%208pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%205pkg:rpm/suse/squid3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Point%20of%20Sale%2011%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/squid3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/almalinux/libecap-devel
< 1.0.1-2.module_el8.6.0+2741+01592ae8+ 20 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.1-2.module_el8.6.0+2741+01592ae8
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.10-lp151.2.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.10-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.23-8.16.37.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.23-8.16.37.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.10-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.10-5.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.1-2.module_el8.6.0+2741+01592ae8
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
15- www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/SQUID-2020_1.patchnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/squid-3.5-8e657e835965c3a011375feaa0359921c5b3e2dd.patchnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/SQUID-2020_1.patchnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-b3a0719affab099c684f1cd62b79ab02816fa962.patchnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-d8e4715992d0e530871519549add5519cbac0598.patchnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00012.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00010.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2020_1.txtnvdVendor Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00009.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-34nvdThird Party Advisory
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210304-0002/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/4289-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4682nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G6W2IQ7QV2OGREFFUBNVZIDD3RJBDE4R/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TSU6SPANL27AGK5PCGBJOKG4LUWA555J/nvd
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