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GHSA-6GM6-3V5F-XFHG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-14 03:38 – Updated: 2025-04-12 12:57

Details

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.

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

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CVE-2016-2569 (GCVE-0-2016-2569)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-02-27 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:32

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2316 records in the last 180 days details

References

11 references

URL	Tags
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https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-01	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2016_2.txt	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2600.html	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/change…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/26/2	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035101	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Date Public

2016-02-26 00:00

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