Critical: squid security update

Topic

An update for squid is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Advanced Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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: Denial of Service in HTTP Digest Authentication (CVE-2023-46847)

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 - AUS 7.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2245916 - CVE-2023-46847 squid: Denial of Service in HTTP Digest Authentication

CVEs

• CVE-2023-46847

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical