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High ALAS2-2024-2445 1 CVE

Important: squid security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Feb 1, 2024 · Updated Feb 1, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-50269: Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through 2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of Service attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the follow_x_forwarded_for feature is configured. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 squid 7:3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.16
Amazon Linux · 2 squid-debuginfo 7:3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.16
Amazon Linux · 2 squid-migration-script 7:3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.16
Amazon Linux · 2 squid-sysvinit 7:3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.16

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 8.6
    CVE-2023-50269 EPSS 58%

    SQUID-2023:10 Denial of Service in HTTP Request parsing

    Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through 2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This …

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-50269.html