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high 7.5

CVE-2016-2569 in the critical feed json

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…

published 2016-02-27 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-3643

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
31.2%
EPSS 31.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

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.

Patch / fix

  • squid3 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 3.5.12-1ubuntu7.5

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2569

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • squid RHEL 7 7:3.5.20-2.el7
  • squid-sysvinit RHEL 7 7:3.5.20-2.el7
  • squid-migration-script RHEL 7 7:3.5.20-2.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:2600

  • squid3 SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 3.1.23-8.16.30.1
  • squid SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1 3.3.14-20.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2089-1SUSE-SU-2016:2008-1

  • squid openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.16-1.5

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11403-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-2569 updated cvss 5.0

squid: some code paths fail to check bounds in string object

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 squid Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 squid, squid34
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) squid 3.5.20-2.el7, squid-migration-script 3.5.20-2.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) squid-sysvinit 3.5.20-2.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) squid 3.5.20-2.el7, squid-migration-script 3.5.20-2.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) squid-sysvinit 3.5.20-2.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2600

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

31.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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