CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-49286

Incorrect Check of Function Return Value

Published: Dec 04, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

The product incorrectly checks a return value from a function, which prevents it from detecting errors or exceptional conditions.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Squid Squid-cache * 6.4 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat squid-7:3.5.20-17.el7_9.10 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat squid:4-8090020231207155957.a75119d5 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support RedHat squid:4-8020020240122164331.4cda2c84 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service RedHat squid:4-8020020240122164331.4cda2c84 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions RedHat squid:4-8020020240122164331.4cda2c84 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support RedHat squid:4-8040020240122165847.522a0ee4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service RedHat squid:4-8040020240122165847.522a0ee4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions RedHat squid:4-8040020240122165847.522a0ee4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support RedHat squid:4-8060020231222131040.ad008a3a *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support RedHat squid:4-8080020231222130009.63b34585 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat squid-7:5.5-6.el9_3.5 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support RedHat squid-7:5.2-1.el9_0.4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support RedHat squid-7:5.5-5.el9_2.3 *
Squid Ubuntu bionic *
Squid Ubuntu devel *
Squid Ubuntu focal *
Squid Ubuntu jammy *
Squid Ubuntu lunar *
Squid Ubuntu mantic *
Squid Ubuntu noble *
Squid Ubuntu trusty *
Squid Ubuntu upstream *
Squid Ubuntu xenial *
Squid3 Ubuntu bionic *
Squid3 Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Squid3 Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Squid3 Ubuntu trusty *
Squid3 Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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