CVE-2016-2572

high-risk

Published 2016-02-27

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.

Do I need to act?

11.2% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — higher than 89% of all CVEs

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.5/10 High

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (6)

Squid

Affected Vendors

Squid-Cache

References (18)

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

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

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

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

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/26/2

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035101

Vendor Advisory http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2016_2.txt

Vendor Advisory http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-14548.patch

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