SB2024032067 - Denial of service in Squid 



SB2024032067 - Denial of service in Squid

Published: March 20, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024032067
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Uncontrolled recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-25111)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an uncontrolled recursion within the HTTP Chunked decoder when handling HTTP requests. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted chunked encoded HTTP Message to the proxy server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.