SB2020102216 - Resource exhaustion in squid (Alpine package)
Published: October 22, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020102216
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-24606)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly EOF in peerDigestHandleReply() function in peer_digest.cc when processing Cache Digest response messages from a trusted peer. A remote attacker who controls a trusted peer can consume all available CPU cycles and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
This attack is limited to Squid using cache_peer with cache digests feature.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.