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CVE-2014-7142

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.

Security Impact Summary

CVE-2014-7142 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 3 products from oracle, from canonical, from squid-cache organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Documented in 2014, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.

Published

2014-11-26T15:59:04.950

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.4 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

4.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-20

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	oracle	solaris	11.2	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	14.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	14.10	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.1	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.2	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.3	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.4	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.5	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.5.1	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.6	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.7	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.8	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.9	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.10	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.11	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.12	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.13	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.14	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.15	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.16	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.17	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.18	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.19	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.20	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.21	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.1.22	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.1	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.2	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.3	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.4	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.5	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.6	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.7	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.8	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.9	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.10	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.11	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.12	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.13	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.14	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.15	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.16	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.17	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.18	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.0.19	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.1	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.2	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.3	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.4	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.5	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.6	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.7	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.8	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.9	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.10	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.11	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.2.12	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.0	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.0.1	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.0.2	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.0.3	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.1	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.2	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.3	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.4	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.5	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.6	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.7	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.8	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.9	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.10	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.11	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.3.12	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.4.0.1	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.4.0.2	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.4.0.3	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.4.1	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.4.2	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.4.3	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.4.4	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.4.5	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.4.6	Yes
Application	squid-cache	squid	3.4.7	Yes

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html ([email protected])
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/539 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/613 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/626 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/60242 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2422-1 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70022 ([email protected])
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2014_4.txt Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891268 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/539 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/613 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/626 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/60242 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2422-1 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70022 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2014_4.txt Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891268 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For oracle's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.