CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2572

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-02-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-02-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

http.cc in Squid 4.x before 4.0.7 relies on the HTTP status code 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.

Affected configurations

• squid-cache squid 4.0.1 • squid-cache squid 4.0.2 • squid-cache squid 4.0.3 • squid-cache squid 4.0.4 • squid-cache squid 4.0.5 • squid-cache squid 4.0.6

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References