CVE-2023-49286 Information

Description

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP HTTPS FTP and more. Due to an Incorrect Check of Function Return Value bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against its Helper process management. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Reference

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-xggx-9329-3c27 https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/6014c6648a2a54a4ecb7f952ea1163e0798f9264 http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2023_8.patch