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Ubuntu: USN-2995-1 (CVE-2016-4556): Squid vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2995-1 (CVE-2016-4556): Squid vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/10/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/09/2016
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

Double free vulnerability in Esi.cc in Squid 3.x before 3.5.18 and 4.x before 4.0.10 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Edge Side Includes (ESI) response.

Solution(s)

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

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