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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7578-01
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7578-01 - An update for squid is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Advanced Update Support. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
The following advisory data is extracted from:https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2023/rhsa-2023_7578.jsonRed Hat officially shut down their mailing list notifications October 10, 2023. Due to this, Packet Storm has recreated the below data as a reference point to raise awareness. It must be noted that due to an inability to easily track revision updates without crawling Red Hat's archive, these advisories are single notifications and we strongly suggest that you visit the Red Hat provided links to ensure you have the latest information available if the subject matter listed pertains to your environment.- Packet Storm Staff====================================================================Red Hat Security AdvisorySynopsis: Critical: squid security updateAdvisory ID: RHSA-2023:7578-01Product: Red Hat Enterprise LinuxAdvisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7578Issue date: 2023-11-29Revision: 01CVE Names: CVE-2023-46847====================================================================Summary: An update for squid is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Advanced Update Support.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)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/11258CVEs:CVE-2023-46847References:https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#criticalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245916Related news
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