RHSA-2024:0771 — Security Advisory

An update for the squid:4 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, and HTTP data objects.

Security Fix(es):

• squid: DoS against HTTP and HTTPS (CVE-2023-5824)

• squid: Denial of Service in SSL Certificate validation (CVE-2023-46724)

• squid: NULL pointer dereference in the gopher protocol code (CVE-2023-46728)

• squid: Buffer over-read in the HTTP Message processing feature (CVE-2023-49285)

• squid: Incorrect Check of Function Return Value In Helper Process management (CVE-2023-49286)

• squid: denial of service in HTTP request parsing (CVE-2023-50269)

Bug Fix(es):

• squid crashes in assertion when a parent peer exists (RHEL-18255)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.