vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-2571: 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
Feb 19, 2026

Description

http.cc in Squid 3.x before 3.5.15 and 4.x before 4.0.7 proceeds with the storage of certain data after a response-parsing failure, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed response.

Solutions

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