Buffer Overflow Affecting squid-debugsource package, versions <7:5.5-5.el9_2.1


Severity

Recommended
critical

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
51.04% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY9-SQUIDDEBUGSOURCE-6055834
  • published12 Nov 2023
  • disclosed3 Nov 2023

Introduced: 3 Nov 2023

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:9 squid-debugsource to version 7:5.5-5.el9_2.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2023:6266.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream squid-debugsource package and not the squid-debugsource package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:9 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1