CVE-2016-2572

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2572
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2572.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2572
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-02-27T05:59:06.797Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:41:10.895539Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/squid-cache/squid

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid
Events
Introduced
1243ec712bf76c549ba7f48fcdc30d98ce550449
Last affected
404063c59bb4ffa6c5a005611c4375f82ddd423f
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:4.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:4.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "4.0.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.0.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.0.2"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.0.2"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.0.3"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.0.3"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.0.4"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.0.4"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.0.5"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.0.5"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.0.6"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.0.6"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

4.*
4.0.1
4.0.2
4.0.3
4.0.4
4.0.5
4.0.6
Other
SQUID_4_0_1
SQUID_4_0_2
SQUID_4_0_3
SQUID_4_0_4
SQUID_4_0_5
SQUID_4_0_6

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2572.json"