Security Alert (A19-08-04): Vulnerability in Squid


 

Published on: 27 August 2019

  
  

Description:

Squid has published a security advisory (SQUID-2019:5) to address a buffer overflow vulnerability.  A remote attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to the target server.

 

Affected Systems:

  • Squid 4.0.23 to 4.7

 

Impact:

Attempts to exploit the vulnerability could result in arbitrary code execution and denial of service.

 

Recommendation:

Squid has released version 4.8 to address the issue and it can be downloaded at the following URL:

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/

 

More Information:

http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2019_5.txt
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-12527

 



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