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Mageia 9: MGASA-2024-0126 Moderate: Squid Denial of Service Flaws

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Calendar Grey April 12, 2024
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent squid updates address security flaws such as Use-After-Free and Denial of Service vulnerabilities present in Mageia.
Affected versions of squid are subject to a a Use-After-Free bug which can lead to a Denial of Service attack via collapsed forwarding

Summary

Affected versions of squid are subject to a a Use-After-Free bug which can lead to a Denial of Service attack via collapsed forwarding. All versions of Squid from 3.5 up to and including 5.9 configured with "collapsed_forwarding on" are vulnerable. Configurations with "collapsed_forwarding off" or without a "collapsed_forwarding" directive are not vulnerable. (CVE-2023-49288) Squid is vulnerable to Denial of Service attack against HTTP and HTTPS clients due to an Improper Handling of Structural Elements bug. (CVE-2023-5824)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33091

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6728-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-49288

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5824

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service software update squid use-after-free Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/squid-5.9-1.3.mga9

Publication date: 12 Apr 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0126.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-49288, CVE-2023-5824

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service software update squid use-after-free Mageia

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