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CentOS Linux: CVE-2023-46847: Critical: squid security update (CESA-2023:6805)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2023-46847: Critical: squid security update (CESA-2023:6805)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/02/2023
Created
11/04/2023
Added
11/03/2023
Modified
01/29/2024

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)

  • centos-upgrade-squid
  • centos-upgrade-squid-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-squid-migration-script
  • centos-upgrade-squid-sysvinit

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