CVE-2016-3947

Publication date 7 April 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Icmp6::Recv function in icmp/Icmp6.cc in the pinger utility in Squid before 3.5.16 and 4.x before 4.0.8 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (performance degradation or transition failures) or write sensitive information to log files via an ICMPv6 packet.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
squid3	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 3.5.12-1ubuntu7.2
	15.10 wily	Fixed 3.3.8-1ubuntu16.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 3.3.8-1ubuntu6.8
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 3.1.19-1ubuntu3.12.04.7

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
squid3	Upstream: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/changesets/squid-3.1-10495.patch Upstream: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.3/changesets/squid-3.3-12694.patch Upstream: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/squid-3.5-14015.patch

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.2 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2995-1
Squid vulnerabilities
9 June 2016