Vulmon
Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2381
Advisory Release Date: 2024-01-03 21:04 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-01-09 17:59 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to an Incorrect Check of Function Return Value bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against its Helper process management. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2023-49286)
Affected Packages:
squid
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
"Run yum update squid to update your system.
"
New Packages:
aarch64:
squid-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.15.aarch64
squid-sysvinit-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.15.aarch64
squid-migration-script-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.15.aarch64
squid-debuginfo-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.15.aarch64
i686:
squid-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.15.i686
squid-sysvinit-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.15.i686
squid-migration-script-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.15.i686
squid-debuginfo-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.15.i686
src:
squid-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.15.src
x86_64:
squid-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.15.x86_64
squid-sysvinit-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.15.x86_64
squid-migration-script-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.15.x86_64
squid-debuginfo-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.15.x86_64