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CVE-2021-46784 (GCVE-0-2021-46784)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-07-17 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 05:17
VLAI
Summary
In Squid 3.x through 3.5.28, 4.x through 4.17, and 5.x before 5.6, due to improper buffer management, a Denial of Service can occur when processing long Gopher server responses.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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