vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-4554: squid, squid3 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 10, 2016
Added
Jul 22, 2016
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

mime_header.cc in Squid before 3.5.18 allows remote attackers to bypass intended same-origin restrictions and possibly conduct cache-poisoning attacks via a crafted HTTP Host header, aka a "header smuggling" issue.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-squiddebian-upgrade-squid3
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