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High ALAS2-2023-2062 1 CVE

Important: squid security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published May 25, 2023 · Updated Jun 1, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-8517: An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.10. Due to incorrect input validation, the NTLM authentication credentials parser in ext_lm_group_acl may write to memory outside the credentials buffer. On systems with memory access protections, this can result in the helper process being terminated unexpectedly. This leads to the Squid process also terminating and a denial of service for all clients using the proxy.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 squid 7:3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.4
Amazon Linux · 2 squid-debuginfo 7:3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.4
Amazon Linux · 2 squid-migration-script 7:3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.4
Amazon Linux · 2 squid-sysvinit 7:3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.4

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-8517.html