squid — security advisory
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to an Incorrect Check of Function Return Value bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against its Helper process management. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
- Products
- squid
- Affected versions
- 5.7-2
- Fixed versions
- 5.7-2+deb12u1, 6.5-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-49286
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to an Incorrect Check of Function Return Value bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against its Helper process management. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-49286
squid
Fixed versions: 5.7-2+deb12u1
squid
Fixed versions: 6.5-1
squid
Fixed versions: 6.5-1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 456951,
"published_at": "2023-12-04T23:15:27.243+00:00"
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