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Ubuntu: USN-2995-1 (CVE-2016-3947): Squid vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2995-1 (CVE-2016-3947): Squid vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/07/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/09/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Icmp6::Recv function in icmp/Icmp6.cc in the pinger utility in Squid before 3.5.16 and 4.x before 4.0.8 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (performance degradation or transition failures) or write sensitive information to log files via an ICMPv6 packet.

Solution(s)

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

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