Memory corruption in Squid - CVE-2016-2570
Published: October 1, 2016 / Updated: February 6, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU4171
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2570
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Squid-cache.org
Affected software:
Squid
Squid
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in the Edge Side Includes (ESI) parser due to improper checking of buffer limits during XML parsing. A remote attacker can use a specially crafted XML document, related to esi/CustomParser.cc and esi/CustomParser.h, as demonstrated by a crafted HTTP Vary header, trigger assertion failure and daemon exit and cause the service to crash.
The weakness exists in the Edge Side Includes (ESI) parser due to improper checking of buffer limits during XML parsing. A remote attacker can use a specially crafted XML document, related to esi/CustomParser.cc and esi/CustomParser.h, as demonstrated by a crafted HTTP Vary header, trigger assertion failure and daemon exit and cause the service to crash.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-2570
Install update from vendor's website.