Use After Free Affecting squid package, versions [3.5,6.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.55% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SQUID-6099121
  • published5 Dec 2023
  • disclosed4 Dec 2023
  • creditJoshua Rogers

Introduced: 4 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-49288  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade squid to version 6.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via the collapsed_forwarding directive. An attacker can cause a denial of service by exploiting a Use-After-Free bug. This is only exploitable if the collapsed_forwarding directive is enabled.

CVSS Scores

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