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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.151403
Category:Web Servers
Title:Squid DoS Vulnerability (GHSA-wgq4-4cfg-c4x3, SQUID-2023:10)
Summary:Squid is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Squid is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
Due to an uncontrolled recursion bug, Squid may be vulnerable
to denial of service attack against HTTP request parsing.

This flaw was part of the 'Squid Caching Proxy Security Audit: 55 vulnerabilities and 35 0days'
publication in October 2023 and filed as 'X-Forwarded-For Stack Overflow'.

Affected Software/OS:
Squid version 2.6 through 6.5.

Solution:
Update to version 6.6 or later.

CVSS Score:
7.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2023-50269
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MEV66D3PAAY6K7TWDT3WZBLCPLASFJDC/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5QASTMCUSUEW3UOMKHZJB3FTONWSRXS/
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v5/SQUID-2023_10.patch
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2023_10.patch
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-wgq4-4cfg-c4x3
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00003.html
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