CVE-2023-49285

Published: Dec 4, 2023Modified: Jun 17, 2026

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a Buffer Overread bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid HTTP Message processing. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected (1)

Products: Squid Cache: Squid

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Squid Cache Squid	Up to 6.4

Related CWEs

Out-of-bounds Read

The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

Buffer Over-read

The product reads from a buffer using buffer access mechanisms such as indexes or pointers that reference memory locations after the targeted buffer.

References (18)

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v5/SQUID-2023_7.patch

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Broken Link

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2023_7.patch

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Broken Link

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/77b3fb4df0f126784d5fd4967c28ed40eb8d521b

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Patch

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/deee944f9a12c9fd399ce52f3e2526bb573a9470

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Patch

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-8w9r-p88v-mmx9

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Vendor Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00003.html

Source: security-advisories@github.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5QASTMCUSUEW3UOMKHZJB3FTONWSRXS/

Source: security-advisories@github.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MEV66D3PAAY6K7TWDT3WZBLCPLASFJDC/

Source: security-advisories@github.com

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240119-0004/

Source: security-advisories@github.com

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v5/SQUID-2023_7.patch

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Broken Link

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2023_7.patch

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Broken Link

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/77b3fb4df0f126784d5fd4967c28ed40eb8d521b

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Patch

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/deee944f9a12c9fd399ce52f3e2526bb573a9470

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Patch

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-8w9r-p88v-mmx9

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00003.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5QASTMCUSUEW3UOMKHZJB3FTONWSRXS/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MEV66D3PAAY6K7TWDT3WZBLCPLASFJDC/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240119-0004/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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