USN-2921-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6270)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2016-03-07 12:56 – Updated: 2026-02-10 04:40 – Source website
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Summary
squid3 vulnerabilities
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Sebastian Krahmer discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain SNMP requests. If SNMP is enabled, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-6270)

Alex Rousskov discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain malformed responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-2571)

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  "id": "USN-2921-1",
  "modified": "2026-02-10T04:40:57Z",
  "published": "2016-03-07T12:56:15Z",
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