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Debian 9: DLA-2394-1 Critical: Squid Request Smuggling and DoS

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Calendar Grey October 2, 2020
Dist Debian Esm H88
Debian LTS Advisory DLA-2395-1 outlines the remediation for multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL that may compromise data integrity and security protocols.
Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Squid, a high- performance proxy caching server for web clients

Summary

CVE-2020-15049

An issue was discovered in http/ContentLengthInterpreter.cc in
Squid. 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.
This update also includes several other improvements to the
HttpHeader parsing code.

CVE-2020-15810 and CVE-2020-15811

Due to incorrect data validation, HTTP Request Smuggling attacks may
succeed against HTTP and HTTPS traffic. This leads to cache
poisoning and allows any client, including browser scripts, to
bypass local security and poison the proxy cache and any downstream
caches with content from an arbitrary source. When configured for
relaxed header parsing (the default), Squid relays headers containing whitespace characters to upstream servers. When this
occurs as a prefix to a Content-Length header, the frame length

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Package: squid3
Version: 3.5.23-5+deb9u5
CVE ID: CVE-2020-15049 CVE-2020-15810 CVE-2020-15811

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