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Squid "clientAbortBody()" and PUT/POST Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA12508
Release Date: 2004-09-13
Last Update: 2005-10-18
Popularity: 12,963 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Squid 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Squid, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) A NULL pointer dereference error within the "clientAbortBody()" function can potentially be exploited to crash Squid by visiting a malicious web site via the proxy.

The vulnerability has been reported in Squid 2.5.STABLE5.

2) A error in dereferencing freed memory during an aborted PUT or POST request can potentially be exploited to crash Squid.

The vulnerability has been reported in Squid 2.5.STABLE7.

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