ALAS-2024-1901

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-49285  

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a Buffer Overread bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid HTTP Message processing. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2023-49285)

ALAS-2024-1901


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-1901
Advisory Release Date: 2024-01-03 22:37 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-01-08 21:23 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a Buffer Overread bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid HTTP Message processing. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2023-49285)


Affected Packages:

squid


Issue Correction:
"Run yum update squid to update your system.
"

New Packages:
i686:
    squid-3.5.20-17.53.amzn1.i686
    squid-migration-script-3.5.20-17.53.amzn1.i686
    squid-debuginfo-3.5.20-17.53.amzn1.i686

src:
    squid-3.5.20-17.53.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    squid-debuginfo-3.5.20-17.53.amzn1.x86_64
    squid-3.5.20-17.53.amzn1.x86_64
    squid-migration-script-3.5.20-17.53.amzn1.x86_64