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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-31806: Security patch for squid (ALAS-2023-1687)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-31806: Security patch for squid (ALAS-2023-1687)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/27/2021
Created
02/24/2023
Added
02/23/2023
Modified
02/23/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.15 and 5.x before 5.0.6. Due to a memory-management bug, it is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack (against all clients using the proxy) via HTTP Range request processing.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-squid

References

  • ALAS-2023-1687
  • CVE-2021-31806
  • USN-4981-1

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