CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-5824

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Published: Nov 03, 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

A flaw was found in Squid. The limits applied for validation of HTTP response headers are applied before caching. However, Squid may grow a cached HTTP response header beyond the configured maximum size, causing a stall or crash of the worker process when a large header is retrieved from the disk cache, resulting in a denial of service.

Weakness

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Squid Squid-cache * 6.4 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat squid:4-8090020231130092412.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_3.2 *
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 oracular *
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 *

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