vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-2569: Moderate: squid security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2016:2600)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 27, 2016
Added
Nov 4, 2016
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

Squid 3.x before 3.5.15 and 4.x before 4.0.7 does not properly append data to String objects, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a long string, as demonstrated by a crafted HTTP Vary header.

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-squidredhat-upgrade-squid-debuginforedhat-upgrade-squid-migration-scriptredhat-upgrade-squid-sysvinit
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