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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-28652: Moderate: squid:4 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-4292)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-28652: Moderate: squid:4 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-4292)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/27/2021
Created
05/14/2022
Added
05/13/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.15 and 5.x before 5.0.6. Due to incorrect parser validation, it allows a Denial of Service attack against the Cache Manager API. This allows a trusted client to trigger memory leaks that. over time, lead to a Denial of Service via an unspecified short query string. This attack is limited to clients with Cache Manager API access privilege.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-libecap
  • alma-upgrade-libecap-devel
  • alma-upgrade-squid

References

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