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CVE-2005-0446

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Description

Squid 2.5.STABLE8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain DNS responses regarding (1) Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) in fqdncache.c or (2) IP addresses in ipcache.c, which trigger an assertion failure.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11264

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19332

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/squid-2.5.STABLE8-dns_assert.patch

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/#squid-2.5.STABLE8-dns_assert

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12551

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-201.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-173.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:047

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-25.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-688

http://secunia.com/advisories/14271

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110901183320453&w=2

http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000931

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-05-02

Updated: 2025-04-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.65887

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