SB202502194603 - Amazon Linux AMI update for squid
Published: February 19, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Unchecked Return Value (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-49286)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect check of function return value in Helper process management. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the proxy server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-25617)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of HTTP headers. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that the request_header_max_size or reply_header_max_size settings are
unchanged from the default.
3) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-49285)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when handling HTTP messages. A remote attacker can send specially crafted data to the server, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and crash the proxy server.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.