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https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_0771.json

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: squid:4 security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2024:0771-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0771
Issue date:         2024-02-12
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2023-5824
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Summary: 

An update for the squid:4 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.




Description:

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, and HTTP data objects.

Security Fix(es):

* squid: DoS against HTTP and HTTPS (CVE-2023-5824)

* squid: Denial of Service in SSL Certificate validation (CVE-2023-46724)

* squid: NULL pointer dereference in the gopher protocol code (CVE-2023-46728)

* squid: Buffer over-read in the HTTP Message processing feature (CVE-2023-49285)

* squid: Incorrect Check of Function Return Value In Helper Process management (CVE-2023-49286)

* squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing (CVE-2023-50269)

Bug Fix(es):

* squid crashes in assertion when a parent peer exists (RHEL-18255)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.


Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258



CVEs:

CVE-2023-5824

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245914
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247567
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248521
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2252923
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2252926
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254663