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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-49285: Security patch for squid (ALAS-2024-2500)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-49285: Security patch for squid (ALAS-2024-2500)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/04/2023
Created
01/11/2024
Added
01/10/2024
Modified
03/19/2024

Description

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a Buffer Overread bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid HTTP Message processing. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-squid
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-squid-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-squid-migration-script
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-squid-sysvinit

References

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