Improper Input Validation Affecting squid-sysvinit package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
88.62% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-SQUIDSYSVINIT-1407547
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed10 May 2021

Introduced: 10 May 2021

CVE-2021-31806  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 squid-sysvinit.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream squid-sysvinit package and not the squid-sysvinit 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 memory-management bug, it is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack (against all clients using the proxy) via HTTP Range request processing.

CVSS Scores

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