ubuntu-cve-2016-4555
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2016-05-10 00:00
Modified
2025-09-08 16:43
Summary
Details

client_side_request.cc in Squid 3.x before 3.5.18 and 4.x before 4.0.10 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted Edge Side Includes (ESI) responses.

Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
To clipboard 

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "squid",
            "binary_version": "3.3.8-1ubuntu6.8"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "squid-cgi",
            "binary_version": "3.3.8-1ubuntu6.8"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "squid-purge",
            "binary_version": "3.3.8-1ubuntu6.8"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "squid3",
            "binary_version": "3.3.8-1ubuntu6.8"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "squid3-common",
            "binary_version": "3.3.8-1ubuntu6.8"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "squidclient",
            "binary_version": "3.3.8-1ubuntu6.8"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "squid3",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/squid3@3.3.8-1ubuntu6.8?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.3.8-1ubuntu6.8"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "3.3.8-1ubuntu3",
        "3.3.8-1ubuntu4",
        "3.3.8-1ubuntu5",
        "3.3.8-1ubuntu6",
        "3.3.8-1ubuntu6.1",
        "3.3.8-1ubuntu6.2",
        "3.3.8-1ubuntu6.3",
        "3.3.8-1ubuntu6.4",
        "3.3.8-1ubuntu6.6"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "squid",
            "binary_version": "3.5.12-1ubuntu7.2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "squid-cgi",
            "binary_version": "3.5.12-1ubuntu7.2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "squid-common",
            "binary_version": "3.5.12-1ubuntu7.2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "squid-purge",
            "binary_version": "3.5.12-1ubuntu7.2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "squid3",
            "binary_version": "3.5.12-1ubuntu7.2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "squidclient",
            "binary_version": "3.5.12-1ubuntu7.2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "squid3",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/squid3@3.5.12-1ubuntu7.2?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.5.12-1ubuntu7.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "3.3.8-1ubuntu16",
        "3.3.8-1ubuntu17",
        "3.5.12-1ubuntu6",
        "3.5.12-1ubuntu7",
        "3.5.12-1ubuntu7.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "client_side_request.cc in Squid 3.x before 3.5.18 and 4.x before 4.0.10 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted Edge Side Includes (ESI) responses.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4555",
  "modified": "2025-09-08T16:43:45Z",
  "published": "2016-05-10T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4555"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2016_9.txt"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2995-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4555"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-2995-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2016-4555"
  ]
}



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