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High ALAS2-2024-2509 2 CVEs

Important: squid security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Mar 27, 2024 · Updated Mar 27, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-46846: Due to chunked decoder lenience Squid is vulnerable to Request/Response smuggling attacks when parsing HTTP/1.1 and ICAP messages. CVE-2019-12521: A flaw was found in squid. When Squid is parsing ESI, it keeps the ESI elements in ESIContext. ESIContext contains a buffer for holding a stack of ESIElements. When a new ESIElement is parsed, it is added via addStackElement. addStackElement has a check for the number of elements in this buffer, but it's off by 1, leading to a Heap Overflow of 1 element. The overflow is within the same structure so it can't affect adjacent memory blocks, and thus just leads to a crash while processing.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 squid 7:3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.20
Amazon Linux · 2 squid-debuginfo 7:3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.20
Amazon Linux · 2 squid-migration-script 7:3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.20
Amazon Linux · 2 squid-sysvinit 7:3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.20

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-12521.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-46846.html