ALAS-2024-2500


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2500
Advisory Release Date: 2024-03-13 20:26 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-03-18 20:23 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2023-49285)


Affected Packages:

squid


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update squid to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    squid-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.19.aarch64
    squid-sysvinit-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.19.aarch64
    squid-migration-script-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.19.aarch64
    squid-debuginfo-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.19.aarch64

i686:
    squid-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.19.i686
    squid-sysvinit-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.19.i686
    squid-migration-script-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.19.i686
    squid-debuginfo-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.19.i686

src:
    squid-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.19.src

x86_64:
    squid-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.19.x86_64
    squid-sysvinit-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.19.x86_64
    squid-migration-script-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.19.x86_64
    squid-debuginfo-3.5.20-17.amzn2.7.19.x86_64