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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
May 27, 2021
Added
Feb 23, 2023
Modified
Feb 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

amazon-linux-upgrade-squid
Title
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