CVE-2014-6270

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 23.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-09-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Off-by-one error in the snmpHandleUdp function in snmp_core.cc in Squid 2.x and 3.x, when an SNMP port is configured, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted UDP SNMP request, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.2
Squid: 2.4.stable1, 2.4.stable2, 2.4.stable3, 2.4.stable4, 2.4.stable5, 2.4.stable6 (+167)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/542
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/550
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69686
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2921-1
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895773
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139967
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95873
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-01
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html

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