Denial of Service in HTTP Collapsed Forwarding in Squid
Summary
Denial of Service in HTTP Collapsed Forwarding in Squid
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. 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. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.0.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should remove all collapsed_forwarding lines from their squid.conf.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2023-49288 squid Fixed in: 6.1-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-49288 squid
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory security.netapp.com
- web lists.fedoraproject.org
- web lists.fedoraproject.org