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Squid Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability - CVE-2021-28651 - Vulnerability Database
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Squid Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability - CVE-2021-28651

High
Reference: CVE-2021-28651
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28651
Title: Squid Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability
Overview:

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.15 and 5.x before 5.0.6. Due to a buffer-management bug it allows a denial of service. When resolving a request with the urn: scheme the parser leaks a small amount of memory. However there is an unspecified attack methodology that can easily trigger a large amount of memory consumption.