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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
64.55% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-SQUIDSYSVINIT-5182357
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed24 Feb 2016

Introduced: 24 Feb 2016

CVE-2016-2572  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-228  (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.

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.

CVSS Scores

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