Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 202005-05

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Squid, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Affected packages

net-proxy/squid on all architectures
Affected versions < 4.11
Unaffected versions >= 4.11

Background

Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on Unix systems. It supports proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other URLs, as well as SSL support, cache hierarchies, transparent caching, access control lists and many other features.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Squid. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Squid users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-proxy/squid-4.11"
 

References

Release date
May 12, 2020

Latest revision
May 12, 2020: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
remote

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