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CVE-2011-4096

CVE-2011-4096

15Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 37%
exploitation probability
37%top 2% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
References
http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3237#c12http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/46609http://secunia.com/advisories/47459http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:193http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/31/5http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/3http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1791.htmlhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026265http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/changesets/SQUID_3_1_16.html