RHSA-2023:7213 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the squid:4 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

After installing this update, the squid service will be restarted automatically.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2245910 - CVE-2023-46846 squid: Request/Response smuggling in HTTP/1.1 and ICAP
• BZ - 2245916 - CVE-2023-46847 squid: Denial of Service in HTTP Digest Authentication

CVEs

• CVE-2023-46846
• CVE-2023-46847

References

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