CVE-2019-12521

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in Squid through 4.7. When Squid is parsing ESI, it keeps the ESI elements in ESIContext. ESIContext contains a buffer for holding a stack of ESIElements. When a new ESIElement is parsed, it is added via addStackElement. addStackElement has a check for the number of elements in this buffer, but it's off by 1, leading to a Heap Overflow of 1 element. The overflow is within the same structure so it can't affect adjacent memory blocks, and thus just leads to a crash while processing.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4682

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4356-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210205-0006/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-05

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00009.html

https://gitlab.com/jeriko.one/security/-/blob/master/squid/CVEs/CVE-2019-12521.txt

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/23/1

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00018.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-04-15

Updated: 2021-07-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium