{"id":"CVE-2023-49286","summary":"Denial of Service in Helper Process management","details":"Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to an Incorrect Check of Function Return Value bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against its Helper process management. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.","aliases":["GHSA-xggx-9329-3c27"],"modified":"2026-05-15T04:07:37.530114402Z","published":"2023-12-04T22:53:44.827Z","related":["ALSA-2024:0046","ALSA-2024:0071","SUSE-SU-2023:4698-1","SUSE-SU-2023:4724-1","SUSE-SU-2023:4825-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:13631-1"],"database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"GitHub_M","cwe_ids":["CWE-253","CWE-617"],"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/49xxx/CVE-2023-49286.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2023_8.patch"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00003.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5QASTMCUSUEW3UOMKHZJB3FTONWSRXS/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MEV66D3PAAY6K7TWDT3WZBLCPLASFJDC/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/49xxx/CVE-2023-49286.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-xggx-9329-3c27"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49286"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240119-0004/"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/6014c6648a2a54a4ecb7f952ea1163e0798f9264"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}