Out-of-bounds Write Affecting squid package, versions [3.0,3.5.28][4.0,4.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.31% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SQUID-2370838
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-18676  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade squid to version 4.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. An issue was discovered in Squid 3.x and 4.x through 4.8. Due to incorrect input validation, there is a heap-based buffer overflow that can result in Denial of Service to all clients using the proxy. Severity is high due to this vulnerability occurring before normal security checks; any remote client that can reach the proxy port can trivially perform the attack via a crafted URI scheme.

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