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Ubuntu: USN-2995-1 (CVE-2016-4051): Squid vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2995-1 (CVE-2016-4051): Squid vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/25/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/09/2016
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

Buffer overflow in cachemgr.cgi in Squid 2.x, 3.x before 3.5.17, and 4.x before 4.0.9 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code by seeding manager reports with crafted data.

Solution(s)

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

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