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CVE-2016-3947

HIGH severity · CVSS 8.2 · Memory corruption
8.2CVSS HIGH

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Icmp6::Recv function in icmp/Icmp6.cc in the pinger utility in Squid before 3.5.16 and 4.x before 4.0.8 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (performance degradation or transition failures) or write sensitive information to log files via an ICMPv6 packet.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)14%

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/changesets/squid-3.1-10495.patch ↗