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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-49286: Security patch for squid (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 4, 2023
Added
Jan 10, 2024
Modified
May 20, 2026

Description

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to an Incorrect Check of Function Return Value bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against its Helper process management. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Solutions

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-squidamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-squid-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-squid-migration-scriptamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-squid-sysvinit
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