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Medium RHSA-2024:5906 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: squid security update

Published Sep 16, 2024 · Updated Mar 18, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 EUS rhel_eus:9.2::appstream squid 7:5.5-5.el9_2.7
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 EUS rhel_eus:9.2::appstream squid-debuginfo 7:5.5-5.el9_2.7
Red Hat · RHEL 9.2 EUS rhel_eus:9.2::appstream squid-debugsource 7:5.5-5.el9_2.7

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.3
    CVE-2024-37894

    Squid vulnerable to heap corruption in ESI assign

    Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to an Out-of-bounds Write error when assigning ESI variables, Squid is susceptible to a Memory Corruption error. This error can lead to a Denial of Service attack.

    squid-cache squid squid squid3 Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294353
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_5906.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-37894
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-37894
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37894
  • article
    https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-wgvf-q977-9xjg
  • article
    https://megamansec.github.io/Squid-Security-Audit/esi-underflow.html