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CVE-2014-7142 json

The pinger in Squid 3.x before 3.4.8 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (crash) via a cra…

published 2014-11-26 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-7021

cvss
6.4
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
24.9%
EPSS 24.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The pinger in Squid 3.x before 3.4.8 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted (1) ICMP or (2) ICMP6 packet size.

Patch / fix

  • squid Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7142

  • squid3 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.3.8-1ubuntu6.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7142

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • squid3 SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 3.1.23-8.16.30.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2089-1

  • squid openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.5.22-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10307-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-7142 updated cvss 1.8

squid: pinger incorrect input validation flaw in handling of ICMP replies (SQUID-2014:4)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 squid Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 squid Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 squid Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 squid, squid-sysvinit, squid-migration-script
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

24.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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