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CVE-2016-2570

Published: 27 February 2016

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
needs substantial backporting
There are no current plans to fix this CVE in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Priority

Low

CVSS 3 base score: 7.5

Status

Package Release Status
squid3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Not vulnerable
(3.5.23-5ubuntu1)
precise Ignored

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was ignored)
upstream
Released (3.5.15, 4.0.7)
wily Ignored
(reached end-of-life)
xenial
Released (3.5.12-1ubuntu7.5)
yakkety Ignored
(reached end-of-life)
zesty Ignored
(reached end-of-life)
Patches:
upstream: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/squid-3.5-13993.patch