SB2024040455 - SUSE update for squid 

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SB2024040455 - SUSE update for squid

Published: April 4, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024040455
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Uncontrolled recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-25111)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an uncontrolled recursion within the HTTP Chunked decoder when handling HTTP requests. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted chunked encoded HTTP Message to the proxy server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-25617)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of HTTP headers. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that the request_header_max_size or reply_header_max_size settings are
unchanged from the default.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References