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Squid Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability - CVE-2016-3947 - Vulnerability Database
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Squid Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability - CVE-2016-3947

High
Reference: CVE-2016-3947
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3947
Title: Squid Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability
Overview:

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.