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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-46847: Classic Buffer Overflow

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-46847: Classic Buffer Overflow

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
11/03/2023
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/14/2024

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)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-squid

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