vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-2570: squid Multiple Denial of Service issues

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 27, 2016
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Jan 8, 2018

Description

The Edge Side Includes (ESI) parser in Squid 3.x before 3.5.15 and 4.x before 4.0.7 does not check buffer limits during XML parsing, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted XML document, related to esi/CustomParser.cc and esi/CustomParser.h.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-squid
Title
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