CVE-2016-2569

Description

Squid 3.x before 3.5.15 and 4.x before 4.0.7 does not properly append data to String objects, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a long string, as demonstrated by a crafted HTTP Vary header.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3557-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-01

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-14552.patch

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/squid-3.5-13991.patch

http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2016_2.txt

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035101

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/26/2

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2600.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00069.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3