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Squid "sslConnectTimeout()" Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA16674
Release Date: 2005-09-02
Last Update: 2005-09-13
Popularity: 14,558 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Squid 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Alex Masterov has reported a vulnerability in Squid, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the "sslConnectTimeout()" function after handling malformed requests. This may be exploited to crash Squid.

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