7.5High

CVE-2023-5824Squid: dos against http and https

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support; Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Updat… Published: (3 years ago)

Description

A flaw was found in Squid. The limits applied for validation of HTTP response headers are applied before caching. However, Squid may grow a cached HTTP response header beyond the configured maximum size, causing a stall or crash of the worker process when a large header is retrieved from the disk cache, resulting in a denial of service.

Weakness (CWE): CWE-755

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

References and patches

CPE matches (NVD) (5)

  • cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 6.4
  • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*