Denial of Service Vulnerability in Squid Proxy Server

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Squid Proxy Server

CVE-2016-2390 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The FwdState::connectedToPeer method in FwdState.cc in Squid before 3.5.14 and 4.0.x before 4.0.6 does not properly handle SSL handshake errors when built with the --with-openssl option, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a plaintext HTTP message.

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