CVE-2023-49286 (GCVE-0-2023-49286)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-04 22:53 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:18
VLAI?
Title
Denial of Service in Helper Process management
Summary
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.
Severity ?
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion
  • CWE-253 - Incorrect Check of Function Return Value
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
squid-cache squid Affected: < 6.5
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