CVE-2002-0163

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Summary

CVECVE-2002-0163
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2002-03-26 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionHeap-based buffer overflow in Squid before 2.4 STABLE4, and Squid 2.5 and 2.6 until March 12, 2002 distributions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via compressed DNS responses.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Squid Squid All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-017.1.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.caldera.com
www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-027.php af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.linux-mandrake.com
Squid Compressed DNS Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
ISS X-Force Database: squid-dns-reply-dos (8628): Squid Web Proxy Cache DNS reply denial of service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.iss.net
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2002_2.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.squid-cache.org
'updated squid advisory' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:19.squid.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.freebsd.org
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