CVE-2007-0248

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-0248
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-01-16 18:28:00 UTC
Updated2017-07-29 01:30:00 UTC
DescriptionThe aclMatchExternal function in Squid before 2.6.STABLE7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by causing an external_acl queue overload, which triggers an infinite loop.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Squid Squid 2.6.stable6 All All All
Application Squid Squid 2.6.stable6 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Mandriva update for squid - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Squid: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities GENTOO www.gentoo.org
Gentoo update for squid - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Ubuntu update for squid - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Squid Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
USN-414-1: Squid vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/squid-2.6.STABLE7-RELEASENOTES.html CONFIRM www.squid-cache.org
404 Not Found CONFIRM www.squid-cache.org
Squid Proxy ACL Queue Overload Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com
SUSE update for squid - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-07-26Mark J CoxRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch. This issue did not affect the versions of Squid as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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