CVE-2009-2621

high

Description

Squid 3.0 through 3.0.STABLE16 and 3.1 through 3.1.0.11 does not properly enforce "buffer limits and related bound checks," which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via (1) an incomplete request or (2) a request with a large header size, related to (a) HttpMsg.cc and (b) client_side.cc.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2013

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/changesets/b9654.patch

http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2009_2.txt

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022607

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35812

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:178

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:161

http://secunia.com/advisories/36007

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-07-28

Updated: 2009-08-12

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