vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-4553: Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 10, 2016
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

client_side.cc in Squid before 3.5.18 and 4.x before 4.0.10 does not properly ignore the Host header when absolute-URI is provided, which allows remote attackers to conduct cache-poisoning attacks via an HTTP request.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-proxy-squid
Title
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