CVE-2013-5959

Summary

CVECVE-2013-5959
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-09-28 19:55:00 UTC
Updated2013-10-11 03:54:00 UTC
DescriptionBlue Coat ProxySG before 6.2.14.1, 6.3.x, 6.4.x, and 6.5 before 6.5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and dropped connections) via a recursive href in an HTML page, which triggers a large number of HTTP RW pipeline pre-fetch requests.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Bluecoat Proxysg All All All All
Application Bluecoat Proxysgos 5.4 All All All
Operating System Bluecoat Proxysgos 5.3 All All All
Operating System Bluecoat Proxysgos 5.5 All All All
Operating System Bluecoat Proxysgos 6.1 All All All
Operating System Bluecoat Proxysgos 6.2 All All All
Operating System Bluecoat Proxysgos 6.3 All All All
Operating System Bluecoat Proxysgos 6.4 All All All
Operating System Bluecoat Proxysgos 6.5 All All All
Application Bluecoat Proxysgos 5.4 All All All
Operating System Bluecoat Proxysgos 5.3 All All All
Operating System Bluecoat Proxysgos 5.5 All All All
Operating System Bluecoat Proxysgos 6.1 All All All
Operating System Bluecoat Proxysgos 6.2 All All All
Operating System Bluecoat Proxysgos 6.3 All All All
Operating System Bluecoat Proxysgos 6.4 All All All
Operating System Bluecoat Proxysgos 6.5 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
kb.bluecoat.com/index CONFIRM kb.bluecoat.com Vendor Advisory
About Secunia Research | Flexera SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
97767 OSVDB osvdb.org
Blue Coat ProxySG HTTP Request Processing Memory Leak Lets Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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