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Ubuntu: USN-5771-1 (CVE-2016-2570): Squid regression

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Ubuntu: USN-5771-1 (CVE-2016-2570): Squid regression

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/27/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/06/2018
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-squid
  • ubuntu-upgrade-squid3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ubuntu

References

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