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SUSE: CVE-2023-49285: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2023-49285: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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

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)

  • suse-upgrade-squid

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