Improper Input Validation Affecting squid package, versions [,4.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.04% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SQUID-2370890
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Feb 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Feb 2020

CVE-2020-8517  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade squid to version 4.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.10. Due to incorrect input validation, the NTLM authentication credentials parser in ext_lm_group_acl may write to memory outside the credentials buffer. On systems with memory access protections, this can result in the helper process being terminated unexpectedly. This leads to the Squid process also terminating and a denial of service for all clients using the proxy.

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