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Medium USN-4981-1 7 CVEs

squid, squid3 vulnerabilities

Published Jun 3, 2021 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Summary

Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled requests with the
urn: scheme. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
Squid to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2021-28651)

Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled requests to the
Cache Manager API. A remote attacker with access privileges could possibly
use this issue to cause Squid to consume resources, leading to a denial of
service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.10,
and Ubuntu 21.04. (CVE-2021-28652)

Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain response
headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue was only affected
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.10, and Ubuntu 21.04. (CVE-2021-28662)

Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled range request
processing. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-31806,
CVE-2021-31807, CVE-2021-31808)

Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain HTTP
responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-33620)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS squid3 3.5.27-1ubuntu1.11
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS squid 4.10-1ubuntu1.4

Vulnerabilities 7

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-28651
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-28652
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-28662
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-31806
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-31807
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-31808
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-33620