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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Critical: squid:4 security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2023:6804-01
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6804
Issue date:         2023-11-08
Revision:           01
CVE Names:          CVE-2023-46846
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Summary: 

An update for the squid:4 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.




Description:

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data objects.

Security Fix(es):

* squid: Denial of Service in HTTP Digest Authentication (CVE-2023-46847)

* squid: Request/Response smuggling in HTTP/1.1 and ICAP (CVE-2023-46846)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.


Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258



CVEs:

CVE-2023-46846

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical