SQUID-2021:8 Denial of Service in Gopher gateway
Summary
SQUID-2021:8 Denial of Service in Gopher gateway
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a NULL pointer dereference bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid's Gopher gateway. The gopher protocol is always available and enabled in Squid prior to Squid 6.0.1. Responses triggering this bug are possible to be received from any gopher server, even those without malicious intent. Gopher support has been removed in Squid version 6.0.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should reject all gopher URL requests.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-46728 squid Fixed in: 4.13-10+deb11u5
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory security.netapp.com
- patch github.com
- web lists.debian.org
- web lists.fedoraproject.org
- web lists.fedoraproject.org