{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2016-02-24T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "squid: some code paths fail to check bounds in string object",
    "id" : "1312257",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1312257"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "5.0",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-617",
  "details" : [ "Squid 3.x before 3.5.15 and 4.x before 4.0.7 does not properly append data to String objects, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a long string, as demonstrated by a crafted HTTP Vary header.", "Incorrect boundary checks were found in the way squid handled headers in HTTP responses, which could lead to an assertion failure. A malicious HTTP server could use this flaw to crash squid using a specially crafted HTTP response." ],
  "statement" : "Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. \nFor additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2016-11-03T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:2600",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "squid-7:3.5.20-2.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "squid",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "squid",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "squid34",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2569\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2569\nhttp://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2016_2.txt" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2016-2569",
  "csaw" : false
}