ubuntu · CVE-2011-4096

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Priority: medium Published: 2011-11-17 19:55:00 UTC Updated: 2024-07-24 15:57:39 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2011-4096 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (squid3), 6 status rows across 6 suites (hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, upstream): released 4, not-affected 2.

Description:

The idnsGrokReply function in Squid before 3.1.16 does not properly free memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon abort) via a DNS reply containing a CNAME record that references another CNAME record that contains an empty A record.

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