Out-of-bounds read in Squid - CVE-2019-12854
Published: August 29, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU20461
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12854
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Squid-cache.org
Affected software:
Squid
Squid
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when terminating strings in cachemgr.cgi. A remote attacker can a specially crafted request to the affected proxy server, trigger out-of-bounds read error and crash the CGI process, denying access to all users on systems with memory access protections.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-12854
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2019_1.txt
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-2981a957716c61ff7e21eee1d7d6eb5a237e466d.patch
- https://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4937
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SPXN2CLAGN5QSQBTOV5IGVLDOQSRFNTZ/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/42