HTTP Response Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability in Squid 4.x

CVE-2016-2572 · MEDIUM Severity

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

http.cc in Squid 4.x before 4.0.7 relies on the HTTP status code after a response-parsing failure, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed response.

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