ELSA-2016-2600 -- Oracle squidID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:1501661 | Date: (C)2016-12-07 (M)2023-12-20 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data objects. The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: squid . Security Fix: * Incorrect boundary checks were found in the way squid handled headers in HTTP responses, which could lead to an assertion failure. A malicious HTTP server could use this flaw to crash squid using a specially crafted HTTP response. * It was found that squid did not properly handle errors when failing to parse an HTTP response, possibly leading to an assertion failure. A malicious HTTP server could use this flaw to crash squid using a specially crafted HTTP response. * An incorrect boundary check was found in the way squid handled the Vary header in HTTP responses, which could lead to an assertion failure. A malicious HTTP server could use this flaw to crash squid using a specially crafted HTTP response.