vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-28652: Security patch for squid (ALAS-2023-1687)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
2021-05-27
Added
2023-02-23
Modified
2023-02-23

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

amazon-linux-upgrade-squid
Title
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