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Alma Linux: CVE-2023-46847: Critical: squid:4 security update (Multiple Advisories)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2023-46847: Critical: squid:4 security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/03/2023
Created
11/07/2023
Added
11/06/2023
Modified
09/18/2024

Description

Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service, where a remote attacker can perform buffer overflow attack by writing up to 2 MB of arbitrary data to heap memory when Squid is configured to accept HTTP Digest Authentication.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-libecap
  • alma-upgrade-libecap-devel
  • alma-upgrade-squid

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