Reachable Assertion Affecting squid-sysvinit package, versions <7:3.5.20-2.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
69.54% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-SQUIDSYSVINIT-4681120
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed24 Feb 2016

Introduced: 24 Feb 2016

CVE-2016-2570  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 squid-sysvinit to version 7:3.5.20-2.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2016:2600.

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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The Edge Side Includes (ESI) parser in Squid 3.x before 3.5.15 and 4.x before 4.0.7 does not check buffer limits during XML parsing, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted XML document, related to esi/CustomParser.cc and esi/CustomParser.h.

CVSS Scores

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