5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Squid is vulnerable to Denial Of Service (DoS). A flaw was found in the way Squid processed certain external ACL helper HTTP header fields that contained a delimiter that was not a comma. A remote attacker could issue a crafted request to the Squid server, causing excessive CPU use (up to 100%).
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534982
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=31;filename=diff;att=1;bug=534982
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/20/10
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/03/3
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/04/6
www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
www.securityfocus.com/bid/36091
www.securitytracker.com/id?1022757
www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2541
www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2704
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0221
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518182
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52610
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10592