Squid mishandles HTTP Transfer-Encoding headers, enabling request smuggling (USN-8998-1)
Squid incorrectly handles certain HTTP Transfer-Encoding headers, allowing HTTP request smuggling, bypassing security mechanisms, or poisoning web caches.
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Squid incorrectly handles certain HTTP Transfer-Encoding headers, allowing HTTP request smuggling, bypassing security mechanisms, or poisoning web caches.
CVE-2026-61642 can smuggle requests or poison caches; a separate digest bug crashes older Ubuntu releases.
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