RULE(RULE ID:336615)

Rule General Information
Release Date: 2022-05-30
Rule Name: Squid Proxy Unauthenticated HTTP Header Denial of Service Vulnerabilities Vulnerability (CVE-2021-31806)
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CVE ID:
Rule Protection Details
Description: 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.
Impact: An attacker can launch a denial of service attack by exploiting the vulnerability successfully.
Affected OS: Windows, Others
Reference: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-e7cf864f938f24eea8af0692c04d16790983c823.patch
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-pxwq-f3qr-w2xf
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00014.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LSQ3U54ZCNXR44QRPW3AV2VCS6K3TKCF/
Solutions
The vendors have released upgrade patches to fix vulnerabilities, please visit:
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-pxwq-f3qr-w2xf/