Buffer Overflow Affecting squid-migration-script package, versions <7:3.5.20-17.50.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
critical

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
3.65% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-SQUIDMIGRATIONSCRIPT-6038218
  • published28 Oct 2023
  • disclosed3 Nov 2023

Introduced: 28 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-46847  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 squid-migration-script to version 7:3.5.20-17.50.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2023-1872.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream squid-migration-script package and not the squid-migration-script package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service, where a remote attacker can perform buffer overflow attack by writing up to 2 MB of arbitrary data to heap memory when Squid is configured to accept HTTP Digest Authentication.

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