Memory Leak Affecting squid-migration-script package, versions <7:3.5.20-17.el7_9.14


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.38% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-SQUIDMIGRATIONSCRIPT-12179421
  • published25 Aug 2025
  • disclosed10 May 2021

Introduced: 10 May 2021

CVE-2021-28651  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 squid-migration-script to version 7:3.5.20-17.el7_9.14 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2025:14414.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream squid-migration-script package and not the squid-migration-script package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.15 and 5.x before 5.0.6. Due to a buffer-management bug, it allows a denial of service. When resolving a request with the urn: scheme, the parser leaks a small amount of memory. However, there is an unspecified attack methodology that can easily trigger a large amount of memory consumption.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1