CVE-2016-2571

MEDIUM

Description

http.cc in Squid 3.x before 3.5.15 and 4.x before 4.0.7 proceeds with the storage of certain data after a response-parsing failure, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed response.

References

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

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

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

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

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3522

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

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

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

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/squid-3.5-13990.patch

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-14548.patch

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2921-1

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

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

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-02-27

Updated: 2018-03-16

Type: CWE-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH