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CVE-2016-2571

This CVE name corresponds to:

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

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2016-2571
Phase Assigned(20160226)

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

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-3.5-13990.patch
CONFIRM http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-14548.patch