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USN-6728-1: Squid vulnerabilities

10 April 2024

Several security issues were fixed in Squid.

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Releases

Packages

  • squid - Web proxy cache server

Details

Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled collapsed
forwarding. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-49288)

Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain structural
elements. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-5824)

Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled Cache Manager error
responses. A remote trusted client can possibly use this issue to cause
Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-23638)

Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled the HTTP Chunked
decoder. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to
stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-25111)

Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled HTTP header
parsing. A remote trusted client can possibly use this issue to cause
Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-25617)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 23.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Related notices

  • USN-6728-3: squid-cgi, squid, squidclient, squid-purge, squid-common
  • USN-6857-1: squid-cgi, squid, squidclient, squid3, squid-purge, squid-common