Fedora 39 update for squid



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2024-45802
CWE-ID CWE-399
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
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Vendor Fedoraproject

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource management error

EUVDB-ID: #VU99355

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 5.2 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45802

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Exploit availability: No

Description

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.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's repository.

Vulnerable software versions

Fedora: 39

squid: before 6.12-2.fc39

CPE2.3 External links

http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-b73b600af7


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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