CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2855
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-08-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The strListGetItem function in src/HttpHeaderTools.c in Squid 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted auth header with certain comma delimiters that trigger an infinite loop of calls to the strcspn function.
Affected configurations
• squid-cache squid 2.7
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534982 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=31%3Bfilename=diff%3Batt=1%3Bbug=534982 bugs.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/20/10 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/03/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/04/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36091 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022757 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2541 www.squid-cache.org
- http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2704 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518182 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52610 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10592 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534982 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=31%3Bfilename=diff%3Batt=1%3Bbug=534982 bugs.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/20/10 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/03/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/04/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36091 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022757 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2541 www.squid-cache.org
- http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2704 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518182 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52610 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10592 oval.cisecurity.org