CVE-2023-46728

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 None
Description
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a NULL pointer dereference bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid's Gopher gateway. The gopher protocol is always available and enabled in Squid prior to Squid 6.0.1. Responses triggering this bug are possible to be received from any gopher server, even those without malicious intent. Gopher support has been removed in Squid version 6.0.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should reject all gopher URL requests.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2023-46728
  • Assigner
  • GitHub_M
  • Vulnerability Status
  • PUBLISHED
  • Published Version
  • 2023-11-06T17:13:45.821Z
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-11-06T17:13:45.821Z
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-476 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-cg5h-v6vc-w33f x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/6ea12e8fb590ac6959e9356a81aa3370576568c3 x_refsource_MISC
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231214-0006/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MEV66D3PAAY6K7TWDT3WZBLCPLASFJDC/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5QASTMCUSUEW3UOMKHZJB3FTONWSRXS/
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46728
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-46728
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2024-06-24 22:33:07 Added to TrackCVE