ubuntu-cve-2023-5824
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2023-11-03 08:15
Modified
2025-11-05 04:59
Summary
Details

A flaw was found in Squid. The limits applied for validation of HTTP response headers are applied before caching. However, Squid may grow a cached HTTP response header beyond the configured maximum size, causing a stall or crash of the worker process when a large header is retrieved from the disk cache, resulting in a denial of service.

Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "A flaw was found in Squid. The limits applied for validation of HTTP response headers are applied before caching. However, Squid may grow a cached HTTP response header beyond the configured maximum size, causing a stall or crash of the worker process when a large header is retrieved from the disk cache, resulting in a denial of service.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2023-5824",
  "modified": "2025-11-05T04:59:47Z",
  "published": "2023-11-03T08:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-5824"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-543m-w2m2-g255"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://lists.squid-cache.org/pipermail/squid-announce/2023-October/000155.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://megamansec.github.io/Squid-Security-Audit/cache-headers.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6728-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6728-2"
    },
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  ],
  "related": [
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    "USN-6728-2",
    "USN-6728-3"
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  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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    {
      "score": "medium",
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    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2023-5824"
  ]
}



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