CVE-2021-46784

Summary

CVECVE-2021-46784
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-07-17 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-10-22 00:15:00 UTC
DescriptionIn Squid 3.x through 3.5.28, 4.x through 4.17, and 5.x before 5.6, due to improper buffer management, a Denial of Service can occur when processing long Gopher server responses.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-617

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 12.0 All All All
Application Squid-cache Squid All All All All
Application Squid-cache Squid All All All All
Application Squid-cache Squid All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Re: Squid Caching Proxy Security Audit: 55 Vulnerabilities, 35 0days. MLIST www.openwall.com
CVE-2021-46784 Squid Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
Improve handling of Gopher responses (#1022) · squid-cache/squid@5e2ea2b · GitHub MISC github.com
SQUID-2021:7 Denial of Service in Gopher Processing · Advisory · squid-cache/squid · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
CVE-2021-46784 MISC security-tracker.debian.org
Record# %d%s MISC www.squid-cache.org
404 Not Found MISC www.squid-cache.org
oss-security - Re: Squid Caching Proxy Security Audit: 55 Vulnerabilities, 35 0days. MLIST www.openwall.com
oss-security - Re: Squid Caching Proxy Security Audit: 55 Vulnerabilities, 35 0days. MLIST www.openwall.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159972 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for squid (ELSA-2022-5527)
  • 159973 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for squid:4 (ELSA-2022-5526)
  • 159983 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for squid (ELSA-2022-5542)
  • 160402 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for squid (ELSA-2023-16656)
  • 179566 Debian Security Update for squid (DSA 5171-1)
  • 182559 Debian Security Update for squid (CVE-2021-46784)
  • 198840 Ubuntu Security Notification for Squid Vulnerability (USN-5491-1)
  • 240536 Red Hat Update for squid (RHSA-2022:5527)
  • 240537 Red Hat Update for squid:4 (RHSA-2022:5526)
  • 240538 Red Hat Update for squid:4 (RHSA-2022:5529)
  • 240539 Red Hat Update for squid:4 (RHSA-2022:5528)
  • 240540 Red Hat Update for squid (RHSA-2022:5542)
  • 257177 CentOS Security Update for squid (CESA-2022:5542)
  • 282899 Fedora Security Update for squid (FEDORA-2022-0fa51087e7)
  • 282900 Fedora Security Update for squid (FEDORA-2022-d22a045d7a)
  • 354655 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for squid : ALAS2-2023-1907
  • 354715 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for squid : ALAS-2023-1677
  • 355519 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for squid : AL2012-2023-418
  • 356302 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for squid : ALASSQUID4-2023-003
  • 376931 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for squid:4 (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0132)
  • 377004 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for squid (ALINUX2-SA-2022:0031)
  • 672210 EulerOS Security Update for squid (EulerOS-SA-2022-2481)
  • 672235 EulerOS Security Update for squid (EulerOS-SA-2022-2636)
  • 752341 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for squid (SUSE-SU-2022:2367-1)
  • 752348 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for squid (SUSE-SU-2022:2392-1)
  • 752390 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for squid (SUSE-SU-2022:2553-1)
  • 753477 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for squid (SUSE-SU-2022:2359-1)
  • 940590 AlmaLinux Security Update for squid:4 (ALSA-2022:5526)
  • 940623 AlmaLinux Security Update for squid (ALSA-2022:5527)
  • 960432 Rocky Linux Security Update for squid:4 (RLSA-2022:5526)
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