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Squid Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2011-4096 - Vulnerability Database
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Squid Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2011-4096

Medium
Reference: CVE-2011-4096
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4096
Title: Squid Resource Management Errors Vulnerability
Overview:

The idnsGrokReply function in Squid before 3.1.16 does not properly free memory which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon abort) via a DNS reply containing a CNAME record that references another CNAME record that contains an empty A record.