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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-2570: Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-2570: Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/27/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
01/08/2018

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(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-proxy-squid

References

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