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Gentoo: GLSA-202005-05 High: Squid Multiple Execution Threats

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Calendar Grey May 12, 2020
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Critical Gentoo alert GLSA 202105-06 underscores several vulnerabilities in Nginx that could lead to unauthorized access.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Squid, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Squid. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo code execution squid arbitrary execution web proxy

Resolution

All Squid users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-proxy/squid-4.11"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2019-12519 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12519 [ 2 ] CVE-2019-12521 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12521 [ 3 ] CVE-2020-11945 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11945

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-05
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: May 12, 2020
Bugs: #719046
ID: 202005-05

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo code execution squid arbitrary execution web proxy

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Squid, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Background

Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on Unix systems. It supports proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other URLs, as well as SSL support, cache hierarchies, transparent caching, access control lists and many other features.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-proxy/squid < 4.11 >= 4.11

Impact

===== Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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