High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.10. Due to incorrect buffer management, a remote client can cause a buffer overflow in a Squid instance acting as a reverse proxy.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-8450
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.10. Due to incorrect buffer management, a remote client can cause a buffer overflow in a Squid instance acting as a reverse proxy.
osv:CVE-2020-8450
Complete source record
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"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TSU6SPANL27AGK5PCGBJOKG4LUWA555J/",
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"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210304-0002/",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4289-1/",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 434286,
"published_at": "2020-02-04T20:15:14.777+00:00"
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