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CVE-2023-46847

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Description

Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service, where a remote attacker can perform buffer overflow attack by writing up to 2 MB of arbitrary data to heap memory when Squid is configured to accept HTTP Digest Authentication.

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245916

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-46847

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7578

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7576

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7213

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6884

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6882

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6810

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6805

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6804

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6803

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6801

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6748

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6268

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6267

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6266

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-phqj-m8gv-cq4g

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-11-03

Updated: 2024-09-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.5104

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