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Squid "storeBuffer()" Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA16708
Release Date: 2005-09-07
Last Update: 2005-09-13
Popularity: 11,632 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:
Nickolay 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 use of the "storeBuffer()" function when handling aborted requests. This may be exploited to crash Squid.

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