Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure Affecting squid-sysvinit package, versions <7:3.5.20-2.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
59.1% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-SQUIDSYSVINIT-2074187
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed24 Feb 2016

Introduced: 24 Feb 2016

CVE-2016-2571  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-228  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 squid-sysvinit to version 7:3.5.20-2.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream squid-sysvinit package and not the squid-sysvinit package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

http.cc in Squid 3.x before 3.5.15 and 4.x before 4.0.7 proceeds with the storage of certain data 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.

CVSS Scores

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