Input validation error in Squid - CVE-2016-4555

 

Input validation error in Squid - CVE-2016-4555

Published: May 10, 2016 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32272
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-4555
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

client_side_request.cc in Squid 3.x before 3.5.18 and 4.x before 4.0.10 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted Edge Side Includes (ESI) responses.


Affected software

Squid
squid (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2016-4555

Install update from vendor's website.

Squid - update to 3.5.18
squid (Alpine package) - update to 3.4.14-r2

External References

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