It was discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain HTTP Transfer- Encoding headers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks, bypass security mechanisms, or poison web caches. (CVE-2026-61642) It was discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain cache digest replies, which could lead to a buffer overflow.
USN-8941-1: Squid vulnerabilities
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