CVE-2016-4553

NameCVE-2016-4553
Descriptionclient_side.cc in Squid before 3.5.18 and 4.x before 4.0.10 does not properly ignore the Host header when absolute-URI is provided, which allows remote attackers to conduct cache-poisoning attacks via an HTTP request.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-3625-1
Debian Bugs823968

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
squid (PTS)buster4.6-1+deb10u7fixed
buster (security)4.6-1+deb10u10fixed
bullseye4.13-10+deb11u2fixed
bullseye (security)4.13-10+deb11u3fixed
bookworm5.7-2fixed
bookworm (security)5.7-2+deb12u1fixed
trixie6.6-1fixed
sid6.8-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
squidsource(unstable)(not affected)
squid3sourcewheezy(not affected)
squid3sourcejessie3.4.8-6+deb8u3DSA-3625-1
squid3source(unstable)3.5.19-1823968

Notes

[wheezy] - squid3 <not-affected> (issue introduced by CVE-2009-0801 fix, not applied in wheezy)
- squid <not-affected> (Does not affect 2.x)
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2016_7.txt
Fix for 3.5.x: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/squid-3.5-14039.patch
Fix for 3.5 relies on SBuf.
Fix for 3.4.x: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.4/changesets/squid-3.4-13240.patch

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