CVE-2014-7142 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-7142?

CVE-2014-7142 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 26 Nov 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-7142?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Oracle Solaris, Squid-Cache Squid.

How do I fix CVE-2014-7142?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-7142 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-7142 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7142, GHSA-rrff-4cvp-7q5p, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7142.