CVE-2016-3947 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Squid

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow13 documents9 sources
Severity
8.2HIGHNVD
EPSS
75.4%
top 1.11%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
SquidSquid-cache SquidCanonical Ubuntu Linux
Timeline
PublishedApr 7
Latest updateMay 17

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 4.2

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiansquid/squid< 4.1-1+3
▶NVDsquid-cache/squid3.5.15+7

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04

Patches

Patch: www.squid-cache.org ↗Patch: www.squid-cache.org ↗Patch: www.squid-cache.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-59fp-mgp3-qph8: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Icmp6::Recv function in icmp/Icmp6↗2022-05-17
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OSV
squid3 vulnerabilities↗2016-06-09
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OSV
CVE-2016-3947: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Icmp6::Recv function in icmp/Icmp6↗2016-04-07
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CVEList
CVE-2016-3947: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Icmp6::Recv function in icmp/Icmp6↗2016-04-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Squid vulnerabilities↗2016-06-09
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Red Hat
squid: buffer overrun in Squid proxy pinger↗2016-04-01
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Debian
CVE-2016-3947: squid - Heap-based buffer overflow in the Icmp6::Recv function in icmp/Icmp6.cc in the p...↗2016
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-3947 CVE-2016-3948 squid: 3.5.16 version [fedora-all]↗2016-04-04
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-3947 squid: buffer overrun in Squid proxy pinger↗2016-04-04
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CVE-2016-3947 — Squid-cache Squid vulnerability | cvebase