ubuntu · CVE-2016-4553

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-05-10 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:03:39 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-4553 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (squid3), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial): released 4, not-affected 1.

Description:

client_side.cc in Squid before 3.5.18 and 4.x before 4.0.10 does not properly ignore the Host header when absolute-URI is provided, which allows remote attackers to conduct cache-poisoning attacks via an HTTP request.

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