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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4873-1 squid -- security update

Date Reported:

23 Mar 2021

Affected Packages:

squid

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 985068.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-25097.

More information:

Jianjun Chen discovered that the Squid proxy caching server was susceptible to HTTP request smuggling.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 4.6-1+deb10u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your squid packages.

For the detailed security status of squid please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/squid