CVE-2016-2569

NameCVE-2016-2569
DescriptionSquid 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs816011

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)
squid3source(unstable)3.5.15-1816011

Notes

[wheezy] - squid3 <no-dsa> (Minor issue; needs substantial backporting; too intrusive to backport)
- squid <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2016_2.txt
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/squid-3.5-13991.patch
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/squid-3.5-13998.patch
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/squid-3.5-13999.patch
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-14552.patch
Upstream confirmed it does not affect squid 2.7.x

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