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'Squidbleed' Bug Leaks HTTP Requests After 29 Years

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Schneier on Security ·

A 29-year-old vulnerability in the Squid proxy server, dubbed 'Squidbleed', can leak HTTP requests. The bug affects widely used versions of the caching proxy. Users should patch immediately to prevent data exposure.

Meridian48 take
While the squid pun is amusing, the age of this bug underscores how legacy code in critical infrastructure can harbor serious security flaws for decades.
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