SB20241101110 - Fedora 39 update for squid
Published: November 1, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB20241101110
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45802)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when processing ESI response content. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that Squid is acting as reverse proxy where ESI feature has been enabled at build time.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.