XML Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability in Squid Proxy Server

XML Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability in Squid Proxy Server

CVE-2016-2570 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The Edge Side Includes (ESI) parser in Squid 3.x before 3.5.15 and 4.x before 4.0.7 does not check buffer limits during XML parsing, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted XML document, related to esi/CustomParser.cc and esi/CustomParser.h.

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