CVE-2016-3947

HighCVSS 8.2/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Icmp6::Recv function in icmp/Icmp6.cc in the pinger utility in Squid before 3.5.16 and 4.x before 4.0.8 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (performance degradation or transition failures) or write sensitive information to log files via an ICMPv6 packet.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.2/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Apr 7, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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