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Use of Potentially Dangerous Function The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libecap-devel  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LIBECAPDEVEL-1459309
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed19 Jun 2020
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Introduced: 19 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-14058  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-676  (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-devel package and not the libecap-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.12 and 5.x before 5.0.3. Due to use of a potentially dangerous function, Squid and the default certificate validation helper are vulnerable to a Denial of Service when opening a TLS connection to an attacker-controlled server for HTTPS. This occurs because unrecognized error values are mapped to NULL, but later code expects that each error value is mapped to a valid error string.