Arch Linux: ASA-202012-1 High: Nginx Vulnerability Exploit

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201604-4
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Severity: Low, Medium, High, Critical
Date    : 2016-04-02
CVE-ID  : CVE-2016-3947
Package : squid
Type    : denial of service
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Summary
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The package squid before version 3.5.16-1 is vulnerable to denial of
service.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 3.5.16-1.

# pacman -Syu "squid>=3.5.16-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 3.5.16.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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Due to incorrect bounds checking Squid is vulnerable to a denial
of service attack when processing HTTP responses.

Impact
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This problem allows a malicious client script and remote server
delivering certain unusual HTTP response syntax to trigger a
denial of service for all clients accessing the Squid service.

References
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http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2016_4.txt