USN-4981-1

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    USN-4981-1

    Published: 3 Jun 2021Last Modified: 27 Apr 2026

    Summary: squid, squid3 vulnerabilities

    Details: 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)

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: squid3

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.5.27-1ubuntu1.11

    Affected versions

    3.5.23-5ubuntu1
    3.5.23-5ubuntu2
    3.5.27-1ubuntu1
    3.5.27-1ubuntu1.1
    3.5.27-1ubuntu1.2
    3.5.27-1ubuntu1.3
    3.5.27-1ubuntu1.4
    3.5.27-1ubuntu1.5
    3.5.27-1ubuntu1.6
    3.5.27-1ubuntu1.7
    3.5.27-1ubuntu1.8
    3.5.27-1ubuntu1.9
    3.5.27-1ubuntu1.10

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    USN-4981-1 | CVE-DB