vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-5408: Security patch for squid (ALAS-2016-735)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Aug 10, 2016 | Aug 22, 2016 | Mar 2, 2020 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 10, 2016
Added
Aug 22, 2016
Modified
Mar 2, 2020
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the munge_other_line function in cachemgr.cgi in the squid package before 3.1.23-16.el6_8.6 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-4051.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-squid
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