CVE-2014-7142

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 24.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-11-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The pinger in Squid 3.x before 3.4.8 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted (1) ICMP or (2) ICMP6 packet size.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 14.10
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.2
Squid: 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.1.5, 3.1.5.1 (+74)

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/q3/539
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/613
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/626
http://secunia.com/advisories/60242
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2422-1
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70022
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2014_4.txt
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891268
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html

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