USN-2921-1

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    USN-2921-1

    Published: 7 Mar 2016Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: squid3 vulnerabilities

    Details: Sebastian Krahmer discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain SNMP requests. If SNMP is enabled, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-6270) Alex Rousskov discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain malformed responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-2571)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2921-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-6270, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2571

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: squid3

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.3.8-1ubuntu6.6

    Affected versions

    3.3.8-1ubuntu3
    3.3.8-1ubuntu4
    3.3.8-1ubuntu5
    3.3.8-1ubuntu6
    3.3.8-1ubuntu6.1
    3.3.8-1ubuntu6.2
    3.3.8-1ubuntu6.3
    3.3.8-1ubuntu6.4

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High