CVE-2020-8450

Public on 2020-02-04

Modified on 2020-11-16

Description

A flaw was found in squid. Due to incorrect buffer management, a remote client can cause a buffer overflow in a Squid instance acting as a reverse proxy.

Severity

Medium

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CVSS v3 Base Score

5.9

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	squid	2020-11-16 17:59	ALAS-2020-1453
Amazon Linux 2 - Core	squid	2020-09-01 00:40	ALAS2-2020-1486

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	5.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	CVSSv2	7.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD	CVSSv3	7.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

Red Hat: CVE-2020-8450 Mitre: CVE-2020-8450 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity