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LIN1021-6800 : Security Advisory - squid - CVE-2023-46728

Created: Nov 6, 2023    Updated: Nov 13, 2023
Resolved Date: Nov 13, 2023
Found In Version: 10.21.20.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 21
Component/s: Userspace

Description

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a NULL pointer dereference bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid's Gopher gateway. The gopher protocol is always available and enabled in Squid prior to Squid 6.0.1. Responses triggering this bug are possible to be received from any gopher server, even those without malicious intent. Gopher support has been removed in Squid version 6.0.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should reject all gopher URL requests.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) CVE-2023-46728 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46728)
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