CVE-2016-2570

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Edge Side Includes (ESI) parser in Squid 3.x before 3.5.15 and 4.x before 4.0.7 does not check buffer limits during XML parsing, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted XML document, related to esi/CustomParser.cc and esi/CustomParser.h.

Affected products

Squid: 3.0, 3.0-rc4, 3.0.stable1, 3.0.stable2, 3.0.stable3, 3.0.stable4 (+130)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00069.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2600.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/26/2
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035101
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2016_2.txt
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/squid-3.5-13993.patch
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-14549.patch
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-01
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3557-1/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html

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