CVE-2019-12529

squid: Out of bounds read in Proxy-Authorization header causes DoS

Published Jul 11, 2019 CVSS 3.1 · 5.9 Medium EPSS 7.8% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in Squid 2.x through 2.7.STABLE9, 3.x through 3.5.28, and 4.x through 4.7. When Squid is configured to use Basic Authentication, the Proxy-Authorization header is parsed via uudecode. uudecode determines how many bytes will be decoded by iterating over the input and checking its table. The length is then used to start decoding the string. There are no checks to ensure that the length it calculates isn't greater than the input buffer. This leads to adjacent memory being decoded as well. An attacker would not be able to retrieve the decoded data unless the Squid maintainer had configured the display of usernames on error pages.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1858-1 squid3 security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2278-1 squid3 security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2278-2 squid3 regression update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2278-3 squid3 regression update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4507-1 squid security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-4124 An issue was discovered in Squid 2.x through 2.7.STABLE9, 3.x through 3.5.28, and 4.x through 4.7. When Squid is configured to use Basic Authentication, the Proxy-Authorization header is parsed via uudecode. uudecode determines how many bytes will be decoded by iterating over the input and checking its table. The length is then used to start decoding the string. There are no checks to ensure that the length it calculates isn't greater than the input buffer. This leads to adjacent memory being decoded as well. An attacker would not be able to retrieve the decoded data unless the Squid maintainer had configured the display of usernames on error pages.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4065-1 Squid vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4065-2 Squid vulnerabilities
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