diff --git a/squid-6.1-crash-half-closed.patch b/squid-6.1-crash-half-closed.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..901ece2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/squid-6.1-crash-half-closed.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+diff --git a/src/client_side.cc b/src/client_side.cc
+index f488fc4..69586df 100644
+--- a/src/client_side.cc
++++ b/src/client_side.cc
+@@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ ConnStateData::kick()
+      * We are done with the response, and we are either still receiving request
+      * body (early response!) or have already stopped receiving anything.
+      *
+-     * If we are still receiving, then clientParseRequest() below will fail.
++     * If we are still receiving, then parseRequests() below will fail.
+      * (XXX: but then we will call readNextRequest() which may succeed and
+      * execute a smuggled request as we are not done with the current request).
+      *
+@@ -952,28 +952,12 @@ ConnStateData::kick()
+      * Attempt to parse a request from the request buffer.
+      * If we've been fed a pipelined request it may already
+      * be in our read buffer.
+-     *
+-     \par
+-     * This needs to fall through - if we're unlucky and parse the _last_ request
+-     * from our read buffer we may never re-register for another client read.
+      */
+ 
+-    if (clientParseRequests()) {
+-        debugs(33, 3, clientConnection << ": parsed next request from buffer");
+-    }
++    parseRequests();
+ 
+-    /** \par
+-     * Either we need to kick-start another read or, if we have
+-     * a half-closed connection, kill it after the last request.
+-     * This saves waiting for half-closed connections to finished being
+-     * half-closed _AND_ then, sometimes, spending "Timeout" time in
+-     * the keepalive "Waiting for next request" state.
+-     */
+-    if (commIsHalfClosed(clientConnection->fd) && pipeline.empty()) {
+-        debugs(33, 3, "half-closed client with no pending requests, closing");
+-        clientConnection->close();
++    if (!isOpen())
+         return;
+-    }
+ 
+     /** \par
+      * At this point we either have a parsed request (which we've
+@@ -1893,16 +1877,11 @@ ConnStateData::receivedFirstByte()
+     resetReadTimeout(Config.Timeout.request);
+ }
+ 
+-/**
+- * Attempt to parse one or more requests from the input buffer.
+- * Returns true after completing parsing of at least one request [header]. That
+- * includes cases where parsing ended with an error (e.g., a huge request).
+- */
+-bool
+-ConnStateData::clientParseRequests()
++/// Attempt to parse one or more requests from the input buffer.
++/// May close the connection.
++void
++ConnStateData::parseRequests()
+ {
+-    bool parsed_req = false;
+-
+     debugs(33, 5, clientConnection << ": attempting to parse");
+ 
+     // Loop while we have read bytes that are not needed for producing the body
+@@ -1947,8 +1926,6 @@ ConnStateData::clientParseRequests()
+ 
+             processParsedRequest(context);
+ 
+-            parsed_req = true; // XXX: do we really need to parse everything right NOW ?
+-
+             if (context->mayUseConnection()) {
+                 debugs(33, 3, "Not parsing new requests, as this request may need the connection");
+                 break;
+@@ -1961,8 +1938,19 @@ ConnStateData::clientParseRequests()
+         }
+     }
+ 
+-    /* XXX where to 'finish' the parsing pass? */
+-    return parsed_req;
++    debugs(33, 7, "buffered leftovers: " << inBuf.length());
++
++    if (isOpen() && commIsHalfClosed(clientConnection->fd)) {
++        if (pipeline.empty()) {
++            // we processed what we could parse, and no more data is coming
++            debugs(33, 5, "closing half-closed without parsed requests: " << clientConnection);
++            clientConnection->close();
++        } else {
++            // we parsed what we could, and no more data is coming
++            debugs(33, 5, "monitoring half-closed while processing parsed requests: " << clientConnection);
++            flags.readMore = false; // may already be false
++        }
++    }
+ }
+ 
+ void
+@@ -1979,18 +1967,7 @@ ConnStateData::afterClientRead()
+     if (pipeline.empty())
+         fd_note(clientConnection->fd, "Reading next request");
+ 
+-    if (!clientParseRequests()) {
+-        if (!isOpen())
+-            return;
+-        // We may get here if the client half-closed after sending a partial
+-        // request. See doClientRead() and shouldCloseOnEof().
+-        // XXX: This partially duplicates ConnStateData::kick().
+-        if (pipeline.empty() && commIsHalfClosed(clientConnection->fd)) {
+-            debugs(33, 5, clientConnection << ": half-closed connection, no completed request parsed, connection closing.");
+-            clientConnection->close();
+-            return;
+-        }
+-    }
++    parseRequests();
+ 
+     if (!isOpen())
+         return;
+@@ -3775,7 +3752,7 @@ ConnStateData::notePinnedConnectionBecameIdle(PinnedIdleContext pic)
+     startPinnedConnectionMonitoring();
+ 
+     if (pipeline.empty())
+-        kick(); // in case clientParseRequests() was blocked by a busy pic.connection
++        kick(); // in case parseRequests() was blocked by a busy pic.connection
+ }
+ 
+ /// Forward future client requests using the given server connection.
+diff --git a/src/client_side.h b/src/client_side.h
+index 6027b31..60b99b1 100644
+--- a/src/client_side.h
++++ b/src/client_side.h
+@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ public:
+     void doneWithControlMsg() override;
+ 
+     /// Traffic parsing
+-    bool clientParseRequests();
+     void readNextRequest();
+ 
+     /// try to make progress on a transaction or read more I/O
+@@ -443,6 +442,7 @@ private:
+ 
+     void checkLogging();
+ 
++    void parseRequests();
+     void clientAfterReadingRequests();
+     bool concurrentRequestQueueFilled() const;
+ 
+diff --git a/src/tests/stub_client_side.cc b/src/tests/stub_client_side.cc
+index 8c160e5..f49d5dc 100644
+--- a/src/tests/stub_client_side.cc
++++ b/src/tests/stub_client_side.cc
+@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
+ #include "tests/STUB.h"
+ 
+ #include "client_side.h"
+-bool ConnStateData::clientParseRequests() STUB_RETVAL(false)
++void ConnStateData::parseRequests() STUB
+ void ConnStateData::readNextRequest() STUB
+ bool ConnStateData::isOpen() const STUB_RETVAL(false)
+ void ConnStateData::kick() STUB
diff --git a/squid.spec b/squid.spec
index 94cf540..51f5852 100644
--- a/squid.spec
+++ b/squid.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Name:     squid
 Version:  6.1
-Release:  2%{?dist}
+Release:  3%{?dist}
 Summary:  The Squid proxy caching server
 Epoch:    7
 # See CREDITS for breakdown of non GPLv2+ code
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ Patch203: squid-6.1-perlpath.patch
 # revert this upstream patch - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1936422
 # workaround for #1934919
 Patch204: squid-6.1-symlink-lang-err.patch
+# Upstream PR: https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/pull/1442
+Patch205: squid-6.1-crash-half-closed.patch
 
 # cache_swap.sh
 Requires: bash gawk
@@ -105,6 +107,7 @@ lookup program (dnsserver), a program for retrieving FTP data
 %patch -P 202 -p1 -b .location
 %patch -P 203 -p1 -b .perlpath
 %patch -P 204 -p1 -b .symlink-lang-err
+%patch -P 205 -p1 -b .crash-half-closed
 
 # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679526
 # Patch in the vendor documentation and used different location for documentation
@@ -332,6 +335,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Aug 04 2023 Luboš Uhliarik <luhliari@redhat.com> - 7:6.1-3
+- Fix "!commHasHalfClosedMonitor(fd)" assertion
+
 * Sat Jul 22 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 7:6.1-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild