USN-2995-1: squid3 Ubuntu

Vulnerability summary

USN-2995-1 is a vulnerability in squid3 Ubuntu with no CVSS score yet.

Timeline

1. 09-06-2016
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 10-02-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

squid3 vulnerabilities Yuriy M. Kaminskiy discovered that the Squid pinger utility incorrectly handled certain ICMPv6 packets. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly cause Squid to leak information into log files. (CVE-2016-3947) Yuriy M. Kaminskiy discovered that the Squid cachemgr.cgi tool incorrectly handled certain crafted data. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-4051) It was discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain Edge Side Includes (ESI) responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-4052, CVE-2016-4053, CVE-2016-4054) Jianjun Chen discovered that Squid did not correctly ignore the Host header when absolute-URI is provided. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to conduct cache-poisoning attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-4553) Jianjun Chen discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain HTTP Host headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to conduct cache-poisoning attacks. (CVE-2016-4554) It was discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain Edge Side Includes (ESI) responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-4555, CVE-2016-4556)

No weakness data has been published for this record.