CVEs-PoC/2016/CVE-2016-2569.md

### [CVE-2016-2569](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2569)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/26/2
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2016_2.txt
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3557-1/

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/amit-raut/CVE-2016-2569