Important: squid security update

Synopsis

Important: squid security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for squid is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data objects.

Security Fix(es):

  • squid: improper check for new member in ESIExpression::Evaluate allows for stack buffer overflow (CVE-2019-12519)
  • squid: improper access restriction upon Digest Authentication nonce replay could lead to remote code execution (CVE-2020-11945)
  • squid: parsing of header Proxy-Authentication leads to memory corruption (CVE-2019-12525)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing this update, the squid service will be restarted automatically.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1730535 - CVE-2019-12525 squid: parsing of header Proxy-Authentication leads to memory corruption
  • BZ - 1827552 - CVE-2019-12519 squid: improper check for new member in ESIExpression::Evaluate allows for stack buffer overflow
  • BZ - 1827563 - CVE-2020-11945 squid: improper access restriction upon Digest Authentication nonce replay could lead to remote code execution

CVEs

References