Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 4, 2023· Updated Feb 13, 2025
Denial of Service in Helper Process management
CVE-2023-49286
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.
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Affected products
23- osv-coords21 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/libecappkg:rpm/almalinux/libecap-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/squidpkg:rpm/opensuse/squid&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/squid&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/squid&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3
< 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: < 1.0.1-2.module_el8.6.0+2741+01592ae8
- (no CPE)range: < 7:4.15-7.module_el8.9.0+3708+6acaac63.5
- (no CPE)range: < 5.7-150400.3.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.7-150400.3.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.6-2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17-150000.5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17-150000.5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17-150000.5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17-150000.5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17-150000.5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.7-150400.3.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.7-150400.3.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17-4.38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17-150000.5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17-150000.5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17-150000.5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17-4.38.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17-150000.5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17-150000.5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17-150000.5.46.1
- Range: < 6.5
Patches
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References
7- www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2023_8.patchmitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/6014c6648a2a54a4ecb7f952ea1163e0798f9264mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-xggx-9329-3c27mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00003.htmlmitre
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5QASTMCUSUEW3UOMKHZJB3FTONWSRXS/mitre
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MEV66D3PAAY6K7TWDT3WZBLCPLASFJDC/mitre
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240119-0004/mitre
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