CVE-2021-28662

Summary

CVECVE-2021-28662
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-05-27 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:32:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Squid 4.x before 4.15 and 5.x before 5.0.6. If a remote server sends a certain response header over HTTP or HTTPS, there is a denial of service. This header can plausibly occur in benign network traffic.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-116

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Squid-cache Squid All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SQUID-2021:2 Denial of Service in HTTP Response Processing · Advisory · squid-cache/squid · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: squid-4.15-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Merge pull request from GHSA-jjq6-mh2h-g39h · squid-cache/squid@0518249 · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: squid-4.15-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4924-1 squid DEBIAN www.debian.org
20231016 Squid Caching Proxy Security Audit: 55 Vulnerabilities, 35 0days. FULLDISC seclists.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: squid-5.0.6-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: squid-5.0.6-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/changesets/squid-6-051824924c709bd6162a378f746fb8... MISC www.squid-cache.org
oss-security - Squid Caching Proxy Security Audit: 55 Vulnerabilities, 35 0days. MLIST www.openwall.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159483 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for squid:4 (ELSA-2021-4292)
  • 178623 Debian Security Update for squid (DSA 4924-1)
  • 178639 Debian Security Update for squid (DSA 4924-1)
  • 179660 Debian Security Update for squid (CVE-2021-28662)
  • 198400 Ubuntu Security Notification for Squid vulnerabilities (USN-4981-1)
  • 239815 Red Hat Update for squid:4 security (RHSA-2021:4292)
  • 281619 Fedora Security Update for squid (FEDORA-2021-c0bec55ec7)
  • 281620 Fedora Security Update for squid (FEDORA-2021-24af72ff2c)
  • 296065 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 39.107.1 Missing (CPUOCT2021)
  • 356184 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for squid : ALASSQUID4-2023-004
  • 375570 Squid Multiple Denial Of Service Vulnerability (SQUID-2021:1,SQUID-2021:2,SQUID-2021:3,SQUID-2021:4,SQUID-2021:5)
  • 500661 Alpine Linux Security Update for squid
  • 500786 Alpine Linux Security Update for squid
  • 501497 Alpine Linux Security Update for squid
  • 502032 Alpine Linux Security Update for squid
  • 504433 Alpine Linux Security Update for squid
  • 670559 EulerOS Security Update for squid (EulerOS-SA-2021-2317)
  • 670761 EulerOS Security Update for squid (EulerOS-SA-2021-2519)
  • 710101 Gentoo Linux Squid Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202105-14)
  • 750098 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for squid (SUSE-SU-2021:1838-1)
  • 750160 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for squid (SUSE-SU-2021:1961-1)
  • 750641 OpenSUSE Security Update for squid (openSUSE-SU-2021:0879-1)
  • 750782 OpenSUSE Security Update for squid (openSUSE-SU-2021:1961-1)
  • 940500 AlmaLinux Security Update for squid:4 (ALSA-2021:4292)
  • 960193 Rocky Linux Security Update for squid:4 (RLSA-2021:4292)
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