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1 vulnerability found for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Advanced Update Support(Disable again in 2026 - SPRHEL-7118) by Red Hat
CVE-2023-46847 (GCVE-0-2023-46847)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-03 07:58
Modified
2025-11-20 07:06
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Summary
Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service, where a remote attacker can perform buffer overflow attack by writing up to 2 MB of arbitrary data to heap memory when Squid is configured to accept HTTP Digest Authentication.
References
Impacted products
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