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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-4052: Security patch for squid (ALAS-2016-713)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-4052: Security patch for squid (ALAS-2016-713)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/25/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/15/2016
Modified
02/02/2018

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in Squid 3.x before 3.5.17 and 4.x before 4.0.9 allow remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via crafted Edge Side Includes (ESI) responses.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-squid

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