CVE-2024-25617

Publication date 14 February 2024

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Squid is an open source caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a Collapse of Data into Unsafe Value bug ,Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP header parsing. This problem allows a remote client or a remote server to perform Denial of Service when sending oversized headers in HTTP messages. In versions of Squid prior to 6.5 this can be achieved if the request_header_max_size or reply_header_max_size settings are unchanged from the default. In Squid version 6.5 and later, the default setting of these parameters is safe. Squid will emit a critical warning in cache.log if the administrator is setting these parameters to unsafe values. Squid will not at this time prevent these settings from being changed to unsafe values. Users are advised to upgrade to version 6.5. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. This issue is also tracked as SQUID-2024:2

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
squid 24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 6.5-1ubuntu1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 6.1-2ubuntu1.3
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 5.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.4
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 4.10-1ubuntu1.10
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
squid3 24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

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