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HTTP Request Smuggling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libecap  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LIBECAP-1457673
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed26 Jun 2020
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Introduced: 26 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-15049  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libecap package and not the libecap package as distributed by RHEL.

An issue was discovered in http/ContentLengthInterpreter.cc in Squid before 4.12 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A Request Smuggling and Poisoning attack can succeed against the HTTP cache. The client sends an HTTP request with a Content-Length header containing "+\ "-" or an uncommon shell whitespace character prefix to the length field-value.

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