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CVE-2016-2569

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2016-02-24	squid -- remote DoS in HTTP response processing

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CVE-2016-2569 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2016-2569
Phase	Assigned(20160226)

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

Source	Reference
MLIST	[oss-security] 20160226 Re: CVE request: Squid HTTP Caching Proxy multiple denial of service issues
CONFIRM	http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2016_2.txt
CONFIRM	http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/squid-3.5-13991.patch
CONFIRM	http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-14552.patch