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openSUSE 15.4 & 15.5: 2023:4544-1 Important: Squid Security Issue

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2023
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The latest squid release addresses critical vulnerabilities. Highlights include the elimination of gopher protocol support and the resolution of an HTTP request buffer overflow.
This update for squid fixes the following issues: CVE-2023-46728: Remove gopher support (bsc#1216926)

Description

This update for squid fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2023-46728: Remove gopher support (bsc#1216926).

* Fixed overread in HTTP request header parsing (bsc#1217274).

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue squid important fix HTTP request openSUSE gopher support

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2023-4544=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-4544=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-4544=1

* Server Applications Module 15-SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP4-2023-4544=1

* Server Applications Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP5-2023-4544=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* squid-5.7-150400.3.15.1

* squid-debuginfo-5.7-150400.3.15.1

* squid-debugsource-5.7-150400.3.15.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* squid-5.7-150400.3.15.1

* squid-debuginfo-5.7-150400.3.15.1

* squid-debugsource-5.7-150400.3.15.1

* Server Applications Module 15-SP4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* squid-5.7-150400.3.15.1

* squid-debuginfo-5.7-150400.3.15.1

* squid-debugsource-5.7-150400.3.15.1

* Server Applications Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* squid-5.7-150400.3.15.1

* squid-debuginfo-5.7-150400.3.15.1

* squid-debugsource-5.7-150400.3.15.1

References

* bsc#1216926

* bsc#1217274

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-46728.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216926

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217274

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:4544-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue squid important fix HTTP request openSUSE gopher support

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