Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libecap (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LIBECAP-6037853
published27 Oct 2023
disclosed19 Oct 2023

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Introduced: 19 Oct 2023

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

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libecap package and not the libecap package as distributed by RHEL.

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.