CVE-2016-3948

7.5 HIGH

Published: April 07, 2016 Modified: May 06, 2026

Description

Squid 3.x before 3.5.16 and 4.x before 4.0.8 improperly perform bounds checking, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTTP response, related to Vary headers.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00069.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2600.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035458

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2016_4.txt

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/squid-3.5-14016.patch

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-01

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3557-1/

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html