Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-18679  

An information disclosure issue has been found in Squid before 4.9, when processing HTTP Digest Authentication. The nonce tokens contain the raw byte value of a pointer which sits within heap memory allocation, which reduces ASLR protections and may aid attackers isolating memory areas to target for remote code execution attacks.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Information disclosure

Description

An information disclosure issue has been found in Squid before 4.9, when processing HTTP Digest Authentication. The nonce tokens contain the raw byte value of a pointer which sits within heap memory allocation, which reduces ASLR protections and may aid attackers isolating memory areas to target for remote code execution attacks.

AVG-1062 squid 4.8-2 4.9-1 Critical Fixed

07 Nov 2019 ASA-201911-8 AVG-1062 squid Critical multiple issues

http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2019_11.txt
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-671ba97abe929156dc4c717ee52ad22fba0f7443.patc