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Bug 920101 (CVE-2023-50269) - <net-proxy/squid-6.6: Denial of Service in HTTP Request parsing
Summary: <net-proxy/squid-6.6: Denial of Service in HTTP Request parsing
Status: IN_PROGRESS
Alias: CVE-2023-50269
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/...
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa? cleanup]
Keywords: PullRequest
Depends on: 923910
Blocks:
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Reported: 2023-12-16 09:31 UTC by Jarkko Suominen
Modified: 2024-02-11 10:04 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Jarkko Suominen 2023-12-16 09:31:06 UTC
Fixed in 6.6, newest version in tree is 6.5.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-50269

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-wgq4-4cfg-c4x3

Description:
Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug, Squid may be vulnerable to
a Denial of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing.

Severity:
This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of Service
attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the
follow_x_forwarded_for feature is configured.

Updated Packages:
This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6.

Patches:
Squid 5: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v5/SQUID-2023_10.patch
Squid 6: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2023_10.patch
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2024-02-06 09:45:26 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2002cec99bd8545a4d143ed30e44a5df755d4bf9

commit 2002cec99bd8545a4d143ed30e44a5df755d4bf9
Author:     Hank Leininger <hlein@korelogic.com>
AuthorDate: 2023-12-16 10:04:15 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2024-02-06 09:45:04 +0000

    net-proxy/squid: add 6.6
    
    Signed-off-by: Hank Leininger <hlein@korelogic.com>
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/920101
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/923842
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/34310
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 net-proxy/squid/Manifest         |   1 +
 net-proxy/squid/squid-6.6.ebuild | 386 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 387 insertions(+)