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CVE-2016-2569
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-02-27T05:59:03.843 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:44:19.003

Summary

Squid 3.x before 3.5.15 and 4.x before 4.0.7 does not properly append data to String objects, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a long string, as demonstrated by a crafted HTTP Vary header.

Affected products

squid-cache — squid

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References

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